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Nicolas Dacheux is affiliated with the University of Montpellier in France. Their research primarily focuses on materials science and chemistry, with significant contributions to the fields of materials chemistry and inorganic chemistry. Their work spans additional subfields including geophysics, aerospace engineering, and industrial and manufacturing engineering.

Their scholarly output prominently addresses topics related to radioactive element chemistry and processing, nuclear materials and radiation effects, and nuclear materials and properties. They have also engaged with nuclear reactor physics and engineering, geological and geochemical analysis, chemical synthesis and characterization, and the luminescence properties of advanced materials.

Frequent coauthors of Nicolas Dacheux include Stéphanie Szenknect, Adel Mesbah, Nicolas Clavier, Renaud Podor, and Paul Estevenon. These collaborations have contributed to consistent publication activity in several known scientific venues.

The most common publication outlets for their research are:

  • Dalton Transactions
  • Inorganic Chemistry
  • Journal of Nuclear Materials
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • npj Materials Degradation

Examples of recent papers authored or coauthored by Nicolas Dacheux include:

  • "Uranium removal from mining water using Cu substituted hydroxyapatite," 2020, Journal of Hazardous Materials
  • "Thermodynamics of CeSiO4: Implications for Actinide Orthosilicates," 2020, Inorganic Chemistry
  • "High-Temperature Thermodynamics of Cerium Silicates, A-Ce2Si2O7, and Ce4.67(SiO4)3O," 2020, ACS Earth and Space Chemistry
  • "Hydrothermal Conversion of Uranium(IV) Oxalate into Oxides: A Comprehensive Study," 2020, Inorganic Chemistry
  • "The Role of Water and Hydroxyl Groups in the Structures of Stetindite and Coffinite, MSiO4 (M = Ce, U)," 2021, Inorganic Chemistry

Best Publications

  • Crystal chemistry of the monazite structure

    Nicolas Clavier;Renaud Podor;Nicolas Dacheux

  • Versatile Monazite: Resolving geological records and solving challenges in materials science. Monazite as a promising long-term radioactive waste matrix: Benefits of high-structural flexibility and chemical durability

    Nicolas Dacheux;Nicolas Clavier;Renaud Podor

  • Preparation and characterization of lanthanum-gadolinium monazites as ceramics for radioactive waste storage

    Olivier Terra;Nicolas Clavier;Nicolas Dacheux;Renaud Podor

  • Immobilization of tetravalent actinides in phosphate ceramics

    O. Terra;N. Dacheux;F. Audubert;R. Podor

  • Th4(PO4)4P2O7, a New Thorium Phosphate: Synthesis, Characterization, and Structure Determination

    P. Benard;V. Brandel;N. Dacheux;S. Jaulmes

  • Immobilisation of actinides in phosphate matrices

    Nicolas Dacheux;Nicolas Clavier;Anne-Charlotte Robisson;Olivier Terra

  • Stability and Structural Evolution of CeIV1–xLnIIIxO2–x/2 Solid Solutions: A Coupled μ-Raman/XRD Approach

    D. Horlait;L. Claparède;N. Clavier;S. Szenknect

  • Determination of Uranium, Thorium, Plutonium, Americium, and Curium Ultratraces by Photon Electron Rejecting α Liquid Scintillation.

    Nicolas Dacheux;Jean Aupiais

  • U(UO2)(PO4)2, a new mixed-valence uranium orthophosphate : Ab initio structure determination from powder diffraction data and optical and X-ray photoelectron spectra

    P. Benard;D. Louer;N. Dacheux;V. Brandel

  • Solid-state synthesis of monazite-type compounds containing tetravalent elements.

    Damien Bregiroux;Olivier Terra;Fabienne Audubert;Nicolas Dacheux

  • Investigations of systems ThO2–MO2–P2O5 (M=U, Ce, Zr, Pu). Solid solutions of thorium–uranium (IV) and thorium–plutonium (IV) phosphate–diphosphates

    N. Dacheux;R. Podor;V. Brandel;M. Genet

  • Occurence of an octanuclear motif of uranyl isophthalate with cation-cation interactions through edge-sharing connection mode.

    Ionut Mihalcea;Natacha Henry;Nicolas Clavier;Nicolas Dacheux

  • Actinide solubility-controlling phases during the dissolution of phosphate ceramics

    E. Du Fou de Kerdaniel;N. Clavier;N. Dacheux;O. Terra

  • Local structure of actinide dioxide solid solutions Th(1-x)U(x)O2 and Th(1-x)Pu(x)O2.

    Hubert S;Purans J;Heisbourg G;Moisy P

  • Chemistry of tetravalent actinide phosphates—Part I

    V. Brandel;N. Dacheux

  • Monoclinic Form of the Rhabdophane Compounds: REEPO4·0.667H2O

    Adel Mesbah;Nicolas Clavier;Erik Elkaim;Clémence Gausse

  • Investigation of the system ThO2–NpO2–P2O5. Solid solutions of thorium–neptunium (IV) phosphate–diphosphate

    N. Dacheux;A.C. Thomas;V. Brandel;M. Genet

  • Kinetic and thermodynamic studies of the dissolution of thoria-urania solid solutions

    G. Heisbourg;S. Hubert;N. Dacheux;J. Purans

  • Synthesis, Characterization, Sintering, and Leaching of β-TUPD/Monazite Radwaste Matrices

    N. Clavier;N. Dacheux;R. Podor

  • X-Ray Diffraction and μ-Raman Investigation of the Monoclinic-Orthorhombic Phase Transition in Th1−xUx(C2O4)2·2H2O Solid Solutions

    Nicolas Clavier;Nina Hingant;Murielle Rivenet;Saïd Obbade

  • Influence of the precursor and the calcination temperature on the dissolution of thorium dioxide

    S. Hubert;K. Barthelet;B. Fourest;G. Lagarde

Frequent Co-Authors

Rodney C. Ewing
Rodney C. Ewing Stanford University
Dirk Bosbach
Dirk Bosbach Forschungszentrum Jülich
Alexandra Navrotsky
Alexandra Navrotsky Arizona State University
Daniel Beaufort
Daniel Beaufort University of Poitiers
Thierry Loiseau
Thierry Loiseau University of Lille
Julien Mercadier
Julien Mercadier French National Centre for Scientific Research
Andrew N. Fitch
Andrew N. Fitch European Synchrotron Radiation Facility
Peter C. Burns
Peter C. Burns University of Notre Dame
Jérôme Chevalier
Jérôme Chevalier Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon
Udo Becker
Udo Becker University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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