Center for Emerging Energy SciencesPublications

Selected Publications

• Sandeep Puri, et a;., Simulation and Experimental Analysis of Aerogel's Attenuation for High-Energy Alpha Particles in Fission-Fusion Fragment Rocket Applications. Under Review, Nuclear Engineering and Technology, 2024.
• A.K. Gillespie, et al., Exploring Helium Retention from Technical Materials: Development and Investigation.  Under Review, Nuclear Engineering and Technology, 2024.
• A.K. Gillespie et al., Photoneutron yield for an electron beam on tantalum and erbium deuteride. Nuclear Engineering and Technology, 2024, ISSN 1738-5733, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.net.2024.03.007.
• J. Gahl, et al., The Fission Fragment Rocket Engine for Mars Fast Transit.  Front. Space Technol., 12 October 2023 Sec. Space Propulsion Volume 4 - 2023 | https://doi.org/10.3389/frspt.2023.1191300.
• R. Weed, et al., Radiation characteristics of an aerogel-supported fission fragment rocket engine for crewed interplanetary missions. Front. Space Technol., 07 September 2023  4:1197347. doi: 10.3389/frspt.2023.1197347
• A.L. Sobel, et al., Innovations in Emergency Airway Management: Lessons-Learned from Early Cross-Cultural Management of Covid-19. Technology & Innovation, Vol. 22, pp. 181-187, (2021)  doi.org/10.21300/22.2.2021.7.
• R.P. Thorn Jr., et al., A quantitative light-isotope measurement system for climate and energy applications. International Journal of Mass Spectrometry 464 (2021) 116574.
• R.V. Duncan, The Impact of the First Decade of the National Academy of Inventors. Technology and Innovation, Vol. 22, pp. 257-268 (2021).
• A.K. Gillespie, et al., A New Fast Response Cryogenic Evaporative Calorimeter. Review of Scientific Instruments, 91 (2020), 085103.
• S. Lacouture, et al., A solid-state, open-system, differential calorimeter. Review of Scientific Instruments 91, 9, (2020) 095102.
• M. Barmatz, I Hahn, JA Lipa, RV Duncan, Critical phenomena in microgravity: Past, present, and future. Reviews of Modern Physics, 79, 1 (2007).
• P.K. Day et al., Breakdown of Fourier’s Law near the Superfluid Transition in 4He. Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 2474 (1998).
• T. L. Aselage et al., Large Enhancement of Boron Carbide’s Seebeck Coefficients through Vibrational Softening. Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 2316 (1998).
• W.A. Moeur et al., Observation of Self-Organized Criticality Near the Superfluid Transition in 4He. Phys. Rev. Lett. 78, 2421 (1997). 
• G.H. Dunlap et al., A frequency to voltage converter based on Bloch oscillations in a capacitively-coupled GaAs-GaAlAs quantum well. Phys. Rev.B 48, 7975 (1993). 
• L.Z. Wang and R.V. Duncan, Proposed differential frequency readout system by hysteretic Josephson junctions. Phys. Rev. A 46, 3617 (1992).  
• R.V. Duncan and Guenter Ahlers, Singularity and Nonlinearity in the Kapitza Resistance Between Gold and Superfluid 4He near Tλ. Phys. Rev. B 43, 7707 (1991). 
• Guenter Ahlers and R.V. Duncan, Finite-Size Effects on the Thermal Conductivity of 4He Near the Superfluid Transition. Phys. Rev. Lett. 61, 846 (1988). 
• R.V. Dencan, et al., Depression of the Superfluid Transition in 4He by a Heat Current. Phys. Rev. Lett. 60, 1522 (1988). R.V. Dencan, et al., Singularity in the Kapitza Resistance between Gold and Superfluid 4He near Tλ. Phys. Rev. Lett. 58, 377 (1987). 
• Sandeep Puri, et al., Alpha Particle Detection in High Magnetic Fields with Applications in Designing Fission Fragment Rocket Engine. Nature Scientific Reports. Under Review.

Select Pre-Prints

• Muhammad U. Farooq, et al., Pinched Tube Method for Gas Sample Transfers.  ChemRxiv. 2024; doi:10.26434/chemrxiv-2024-781v2.
• A.K. Gillespie, et al., Simulating Radiation Shielding Effectiveness Against Three Neutron Sources. arXiv:2309.15125 (2024).
• R.V. Duncan, Cuikun Lin, Andrew K. Gillespie, John Gahl.  Prospects For A New Light-Nuclei, Fission-Fusion Energy Cycle.  arXiv:2308.01434 (2023).

Select Patents

• Multidimensional bioelectrical tissue analyzer. Peter Littrup, Robert Duncan - US Patent 7499745, 2009  
• Cryotherapy system. Peter J Littrup, Alexei V Babkin, Robert Duncan, Sergei Boldarov - US Patent 7083612, 2006  
• 3D static magnetic field vector imaging array.  S Lacouture, A Bilbao, S Bayne - US Patent US10393827B2
• Wide-injection range Open Circuit Voltage Decay system.  S Lacouture, S Bayne - US Patent US11143694B2 
• Electric current imaging system. S Lacouture - US patent US11493566B2