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Preparation of the thicker americium targets by molecular plating
1Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Science, Lanzhou, People's Republic of China. qinzhi@ns.lzb.ac.cn
Abstract:
Electrodeposition of americium from the mixture of isopropyl alcohol and dilute nitric acid was studied. The 241,243Am targets with thickness between 600 microg/cm2 and 1.2 mg/cm2 had been prepared on thin aluminum foil (7 microm) by molecular plating at one time.