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  • Computational Materials Science
  • Nuclear Engineering

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  • The development of advanced neutron absorption materials is crucial for nuclear applications.
  • Traditional methods for discovering new materials are often time-consuming and resource-intensive.
  • Materials informatics and machine learning offer powerful tools for accelerating materials discovery.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and employ a recommendation engine based on materials informatics for identifying novel neutron absorption materials.
  • To predict, synthesize, and experimentally validate a new ternary compound, Gd10RuCd3, within the RE10MCd3 series.
  • To investigate the structural, thermal, and neutron absorption properties of the synthesized Gd10RuCd3.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized a recommendation engine based on partial least-squares-discriminant analysis (PLS-DA) for crystallographic site preference classification.
  • Employed three explainable methods (unrestricted, conservative, cluster) within the predictive framework.
  • Performed high-temperature synthesis, X-ray diffraction (single-crystal and powder), transport property measurements, and density functional theory (DFT) analysis.

Main Results:

  • Gd10RuCd3 was successfully predicted as a top candidate and experimentally synthesized.
  • The synthesized material exhibits an unusually low thermal conductivity (5-7 W·m−1 K−1) and potential structural transitions between 600-800 °C.
  • DFT analysis revealed a 0D electride phenomenon, and neutron cross-section calculations indicate Gd10RuCd3 is among the top 0.4% of neutron absorbers.

Conclusions:

  • Gd10RuCd3 is a promising new neutron absorption material due to its high neutron absorption cross-section and low thermal conductivity.
  • The developed materials informatics recommendation engine effectively predicted a novel material with desirable properties.
  • The combination of negative thermal expansion and high mass absorption makes Gd10RuCd3 attractive for neutron absorption applications.