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Liquid metal

About: Liquid metal is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 6947 publications have been published within this topic receiving 77785 citations. The topic is also known as: liquid alloy & liquid metal alloy.


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TL;DR: Li et al. as mentioned in this paper summarized development in liquid metal cathodes for molten salt electrolysis, specifically the extraction of Ti and separation of actinides and rare-earth metals in halide melts.
Abstract: Compared with solid metals, liquid metals are considered more promising cathodes for molten slat/oxide electrolysis due to their fascinating advantages, which include strong depolarization effect, strong alloying effect, excellent selective separation, and low operating temperature In this review, we briefly introduce the properties of the liquid metal cathodes and their selection rules, and then summarize development in liquid metal cathodes for molten salt electrolysis, specifically the extraction of Ti and separation of actinides and rare-earth metals in halide melts We also review recent attractive progress in the preparation of liquid Ti alloys via molten oxide electrolysis by using liquid metal cathodes Problems related to high-quality alloy production and large-scale applications are cited, and several research directions to further improve the quality of alloys are also discussed to realize the industrial applications of liquid metal cathodes

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TL;DR: In this paper, a theory of single-magnet flowmeter for liquid metals is presented and compared with experimental results, and the predicted equilibrium rotation rates qualitatively agree with the magnet rotation rate measured on a liquid sodium flow in stainless steel duct.
Abstract: We present a theory of single-magnet flowmeter for liquid metals and compare it with experimental results. The flowmeter consists of a freely rotating permanent magnet, which is magnetized perpendicularly to the axle it is mounted on. When such a magnet is placed close to a tube carrying liquid metal flow, it rotates so that the driving torque due to the eddy currents induced by the flow is balanced by the braking torque induced by the rotation itself. The equilibrium rotation rate, which varies directly with the flow velocity and inversely with the distance between the magnet and the layer, is affected neither by the electrical conductivity of the metal nor by the magnet strength. We obtain simple analytical solutions for the force and torque on slowly moving and rotating magnets due to eddy currents in a layer of infinite horizontal extent. The predicted equilibrium rotation rates qualitatively agree with the magnet rotation rate measured on a liquid sodium flow in stainless steel duct.

37 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors find an easy way of determining the activity coefficients in liquid metals by means of electrochemical techniques, which is needed for the simulations of the efficiency and selectivity of the extraction process which allows identifying the best suited extracting metal.

37 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the role of higher density and fast elastic surface oxide formation on column breakup morphology and droplet characteristics of liquid metals is investigated. But, the analysis of column breakup of water with Galinstan, a room-temperature eutectic liquid metal alloy of gallium, indium and tin, is not well studied.

37 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
2023233
2022413
2021259
2020340
2019399
2018369