Serving as the PI on the grant from the Department of Energy’s Nuclear Energy University Program (DOE-NEUP), Dr. Brinkman brought the $400,000 cost “high-temperature oxide melt solution calorimeter” to Clemson. It is the only one on the East Coast and one of five in the USA. Presently, the calorimeter has been setup and running finally after a year of preparation.
The custom-built instrument can provide us plenty of important and useful thermodynamic data, (for instance, the enthalpy of drop solution, the enthalpy of formation energy and etc.), which would help us predict chemical stability of different materials with complex structures and then better understand their nature.
For more details, please click on the following links
http://greenvillejournal.com/2016/09/20/rare-instrument-clemson-put-dent-us-nuclear-spending/
