Shaileyee Bhattacharya

Profile Information
Name
Dr. Shaileyee Bhattacharya
Institution
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Position
Postdoctoral Research Associate
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ORCID
0000-0001-5711-7443
Biography

Dr. Shaileyee Bhattacharya is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Used Fuel and Nuclear Material Disposition (UFNMD) group at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). Her research interests include post-irradiation examination and microstructural characterizations of spent nuclear fuels. She is actively involved in developing testing methodologies, designing and conducting experiments using irradiated fuel rods, and analyzing the experimental data.
Shaileyee obtained her Ph.D. in Material Science and Engineering in 2024 from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland. During her doctoral studies, she was involved in the experimental determination of crystallographic structure of irradiated UO2 and Zr-based cladding materials using synchrotron X-ray analytical techniques. Shaileyee finished her M.Sc. in Chemistry from Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee in 2019. Her Master's thesis focussed on single crystal growth of topological materials, and characterization of their electrical resistivity and magnetic transport properties. The thesis work was conducted at Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids (MPI CPfS), Dresden, Germany.
In addition to her research activities, she is involved in mentorship and looking to collaborate on projects.

Expertise
Cladding, High Burnup Fuel, High Burnup Structure (HBS), Spent Nuclear Fuel (SNF), Uranium Dioxide (UO2)
Additional Publications:
"Atomic level insight into irradiation effects in nuclear fuel materials" [2024] · DOI: 10.5075/epfl-thesis-10805
"Insights into the interfacial speciation of Ni in the corrosion layer of high burnup Zircaloy-2 cladding: A combined XRD, XAS, and LFDFT study" Harry Ramanantoanina, Shaileyee Bhattacharya, Johannes Bertsch, Matthias Martin, Goutam Kuri, [2023] Corrosion Science · DOI: 10.1016/j.corsci.2023.111024 · ISSN: 0010-938X
"Atomic-Scale Insights into Structural Distortions in Irradiated UO2 at an Intermediate Burnup Around 50 MWd/kgU" Goutam Kuri, Matthias Martin, Johannes Bertsch, Manuel Pouchon, Shaileyee Bhattacharya, [2022] TopFuel 2022 Light Water Reactor Fuel Performance Conference · DOI: 10.13182/topfuel22-38929
"Anisotropic Nodal‐Line‐Derived Large Anomalous Hall Conductivity in ZrMnP and HfMnP" Jonathan Noky, Shaileyee Bhattacharya, Praveen Vir, Yan Sun, Nitesh Kumar, Claudia Felser, Chandra Shekhar, Sukriti Singh, [2021] Advanced Materials · DOI: 10.1002/adma.202104126 · ISSN: 0935-9648
Abstract

The nontrivial band structure of semimetals has attracted substantial research attention in condensed matter physics and materials science in recent years owing to its intriguing physical properties. Within this class, a group of nontrivial materials known as nodal‐line semimetals is particularly important. Nodal‐line semimetals exhibit the potential effects of electronic correlation in nonmagnetic materials, whereas they enhance the contribution of the Berry curvature in magnetic materials, resulting in high anomalous Hall conductivity (AHC). In this study, two ferromagnetic compounds, namely ZrMnP and HfMnP, are selected, wherein the abundance of mirror planes in the crystal structure ensures gapped nodal lines at the Fermi energy. These nodal lines result in one of the largest AHC values of 2840 Ω−1 cm−1, with a high anomalous Hall angle of 13.6% in these compounds. First‐principles calculations provide a clear and detailed understanding of nodal line‐enhanced AHC. The finding suggests a guideline for searching large AHC compounds.

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