Ph.D. Student | Nuclear, Plasma, & Radiological Engineering

About

Graduate Research Assistant, PhD Student, Nuclear, Plasma & Radiological Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign

Research Goals

• Graphite-Tritium interaction in high temperature Molten Salt Reactor environments (FLiBe, FLiNaK)
• Fluoroacidity and its connection with molten salt reactor corrosion
• Electrochemical studies to probe molten salt corrosion

Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/gsrakib
Orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1307-0668

Skills

• Gas Adsorption Analysis: BET surface area, Physisorption, Chemisorption ( Autosorb 6300)
• Neutron Scattering techniques
  • Quasi Elastic Neutron Scattering (QENS) – Liquid dynamics study of molten salt
  • Neutron Diffraction- Local chemical structure of molten salt
  • Data reduction – Addie, EPSR, Mantid, Dave
• Scanning Electron Microscopy ( SEM)
• Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC)

Education

2020 | M.S. in Nuclear Engineering | University of Dhaka
2018| B. S. in Nuclear Engineering| University of Dhaka

Selected Awards

• Mavis Future Faculty Fellowship, Grainger College of Engineering, 2025

• NSD GRO Researcher, Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education, 2023

• Brainin Fellowship, Grainger Engineering College, UIUC, 2021

Memberships

• American Nuclear Society (ANS), UIUC Chapter, 2023

• Neutron Scattering Society of America, 2023

• Student Advising on Graduate Education (SAGE), Graduate College, UIUC, 2023

• Engineering Graduate Student Advisory Committee (EGSAC), Grainger Engineering College, UIUC, 2022

• Graduate Student Advisory Committee (GSAC), Nuclear, Plasma & Radiological Engineering, UIUC, 2022

Selected Articles in Journals

• Rakib, G. S., Lee, S. C., Rose, M. A., Mills, R., Pajerowski, D., & Heuser, B. J. (2025). Self-Diffusivity Measurement of Eutectic F7LiNaK with and without Additives Using Quasi-Elastic Neutron Scattering. ACS Applied Energy Materials, 8(6), 3638-3646. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaem.4c03249

• Malek, M.A. and Rakib, G.S. (2022) ‘Correlation of Pinch Properties with Minimum Pinch Radius in UNU/ICTP PFF for Different Pressure of Argon Gas’, International Journal of Scientific and Academic Research, 02(09), pp. 01–06. Available at: https://doi.org/10.54756/IJSAR.2022.V2.i9.1.

• Rakib, G.S. et al. (2020) ‘Numerical experiments on D-T gas filled PF1000 device with pressure variation’, Plasma Research Express, 2(4), p. 045004. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1088/2516-1067/abc097.

Articles in Conference Proceedings

• Rakib, G. S. et al. ( 2023), ‘Measurement of the Self-Diffusivity of Eutectic F7LiNaK Using Quasi-Elastic Neutron Scattering”\’, in 2023 ANS Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, Fuel and Materials for Molten Salt Reactors — ANS / Meetings / 2023 ANS Annual Meeting / Technical Sessions

• Rakib, G. S. et al. ( 2023), ‘Measurement of the Pair Distribution Function of Molten Eutectic F7LiNaK Using Neutron Diffraction’, in 2023 ANS Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, Fuel and Materials for Molten Salt Reactors — ANS / Meetings / 2023 ANS Annual Meeting / Technical Sessions

• Heuser, B., Rakib, G. S. et al. (2023), ‘Validation of a NNFF model for pure FLiNaK using neutron scattering measurements of diffusivity and local structure’, in ACS Fall 2023 – Sessions, Validation of a NNFF model for pure FLiNaK using neutron scattering measurements of diffusivity and local structure – American Chemical Society (digitellinc.com)

• Rakib, G.S. et al. (2018) ‘Observation of Plasma Dynamics in Axial and Radial Phase of DPF Device with Varying Gas Pressure’, in 2018 International Conference on Innovation in Engineering and Technology (ICIET). 2018 International Conference on Innovation in Engineering and Technology (ICIET), Dhaka, Bangladesh: IEEE, pp. 1–3. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1109/CIET.2018.8660826

• Akter, L., Rakib, G.S. et al. (2018) ‘Study of Axial and Radial Phase Plasma Dynamics as a Function of the Variation of Gas Using Lee Model Code’, in 2018 International Conference on Innovation in Engineering and Technology (ICIET). 2018 International Conference on Innovation in Engineering and Technology (ICIET), Dhaka, Bangladesh: IEEE, pp. 1–3. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1109/CIET.2018.8660774.