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Boron-Containing Nanostructured Materials for Neutron-Shields

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Chapter aims to overview the studies on development of boron-containing nanostructured materials, which can serve as working body of the neutron shields designed to protect first of all people – both the general population and staff of nuclear plants.

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Author gratefully acknowledges the Science and Technology Center in Ukraine for partial support within the Grant STCU 6204.

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  1. Department of Engineering Physics, Georgian Technical University, Tbilisi, Georgia

    L. Chkhartishvili

  2. Laboratory for Boron-Containing and Composite Materials, Ferdinand Tavadze Institute of Metallurgy and Materials Science, Tbilisi, Georgia

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  2. Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics, NASU, Kiev, Ukraine

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Chkhartishvili, L. (2018). Boron-Containing Nanostructured Materials for Neutron-Shields. In: Bonča, J., Kruchinin, S. (eds) Nanostructured Materials for the Detection of CBRN. NATO Science for Peace and Security Series A: Chemistry and Biology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-1304-5_11

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