Vol. 2024 No. 1 (2024)
Articles

Thermal enhancement of the oxidation layer of micron-sized aluminum powder and its anti-oxidation performance

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  • Yang Liu
Yang Liu
The Civil-Military Integration Institute, China Center for Information Industry Development, Beijing 100091, China

Published 27-01-2024

Keywords

  • micron-sized aluminum powder,
  • core-shell structure,
  • oxidation layer enhancement,
  • thermal response

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How to Cite

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Y. Liu, “Thermal enhancement of the oxidation layer of micron-sized aluminum powder and its anti-oxidation performance”, Camb. Sci. Adv., vol. 2024, no. 1, pp. 43–54, Jan. 2024, doi: 10.62852/csa/2024/5.

Abstract

Micron-sized aluminum powder, with its typical core-shell structure, exhibits oxidation behavior upon slow heating in an oxidative atmosphere that is related to the particle size of the aluminum powder. A particle size-dependent thermal response mechanism for micron-sized aluminum powder is established: a "shell-breaking eruption" thermal response mechanism. The oxide layer is thermally enhanced, and the anti-oxidation reaction behavior mechanism of the enhanced samples is studied. Aluminum powder samples, heated slowly to specific temperatures to obtain changes in the oxide layer structure, are analyzed using a thermal analyzer to compare the slow heating response behavior of aluminum powder before and after the oxidation layer changes. It was found that after thermal enhancement of the aluminum powder oxidation layer, which changed from amorphous to γ-phase and whose thickness increased to twice the original thickness, the slow oxidation process of micron-sized aluminum powder was inhibited, and the aluminum powder was completely deactivated in the slow heating response.

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