Laser-Induced Thermal Decomposition of Uranium Coordination Compounds with Non-oxidic Ligands to Produce Nitride and Carbide Materials.

The production of ceramics from uranium coordination compounds can be achieved through thermal processing if an excess amount of the desired atoms (i.e., C or N), or reactive gaseous products (e.

Unconventional Pathways to Carbide Phase Synthesis via Thermal Decomposition of UI(1,4-dioxane).

UI(1,4-dioxane) was subjected to laser-based heating─a method that enables localized, fast heating ( > 2000 °C) and rapid cooling under controlled conditions (scan rate, power, atmosphere, etc.)─to understand its thermal decomposition. A predictive computational thermodynamic technique estimated the decomposition temperature of UI(1,4-dioxane) to uranium (U) metal to be 2236 °C, a temperature achievable under laser irradiation.