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NdAu is Tetraauricupride structured and crystallizes in the cubic Pm-3m space group. The structure is three-dimensional. Nd is bonded in a body-centered cubic geometry to eight equivalent Au atoms. All Nd–Au bond lengths are 3.23 Å. Au is bonded in a body-centered cubic geometry to eight equivalent Nd atoms.
NdAu is alpha-derived structured and crystallizes in the orthorhombic Cmcm space group. The structure is three-dimensional. Nd is bonded in a 7-coordinate geometry to seven equivalent Au atoms. There are a spread of Nd–Au bond distances ranging from 3.13–3.21 Å. Au is bonded in a 7-coordinate geometry to seven equivalent Nd atoms.
NdAu crystallizes in the orthorhombic Pnma space group. The structure is three-dimensional. Nd is bonded in a 7-coordinate geometry to seven equivalent Au atoms. There are a spread of Nd–Au bond distances ranging from 3.11–3.21 Å. Au is bonded in a 7-coordinate geometry to seven equivalent Nd atoms.
On May 5, 1961, Alan B. Shepard became the first American in space (K. Mars); since then, NASA has made leaps and bounds in space exploration and continues to develop new technologies. Through their X-Hab program, NASA has teamed up with the National Space Grant Foundation to fund our student-centered project with one main goal: Move That Goo! Liquid amine absorption is a method by which CO2 is removed from an environment and is intended to be the primary method for CO2 removal for NASA’s sustained human presence on extraterrestrial bodies such as the Moon and Mars. Liquid amines can be highly viscous when absorbing CO2, thus the team needed to produce a design that could move a high viscosity fluid while staying under the power requirement of 1 kW and allowing a few square meters in a closed system. Prompted by NASA and with the support of our faculty mentors, we have been tasked with the research, development, production, and testing of a system able to move a high viscosity liquid amine which requires adequate air exposure to absorb carbon dioxide from a habitat atmosphere in low gravity. The system is split into two main groups, fluids, and materials, with two separate teams of students assigned to their half of the design. The fluids team is responsible for everything in the design that directly touches the fluid. The materials team is responsible for the test stand to which the fluids team’s design is attached to as well as additive manufacturing material selection. In the first semester, the team focused on brainstorming ideas, design selection, budget creation, and CAD modeling. Multiple concepts were generated but the team decided on a design to get the high viscosity fluid to move around a rectangular channel using a screw conveyor mechanism. The liquid must be moved by the turning screw from the thermal chamber going around a rectangular trough back to the thermal chamber. The screw and the trough geometry will be important to allow for the high viscosity fluid to flow, utilizing surface tension to maintain contact to the trough as seen in Figure 1 below.