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Kinetics and Mechanism of Ignition in Reactive Al/Ni Nanostructured Materials
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Kinetics and Mechanism of Ignition in Reactive Al/Ni Nanostructured Materials

Khachatur Manukyan, Joshua Pauls, Christopher Shuck, Sergei Rouvimov, Alexander Mukasyan, Khachik Nazaretyan, Hakob Chatilyan, Suren Kharatyan and Univ. of Notre Dame, IN (United States)
Journal of physical chemistry. C, v 122(47), pp 27082-27092
29 Nov 2018
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Chemistry Chemistry, Physical Materials Science Materials Science, Multidisciplinary Nanoscience & Nanotechnology Physical Sciences Science & Technology Science & Technology - Other Topics Technology
A high-speed electrothermography approach is applied to investigate the mechanism and kinetics for nanostructured Al/Ni foils. Application of the Kolmogorov-Johnson-Mehl-Avrami and adiabatic thermal explosion models reveal that the activation energy for nucleation appears to be much higher than that for the reaction. It is shown that formation of intermetallic nuclei is the limiting step that defines the ignition characteristics of the foils at temperatures below 500 K, while the process is reaction-limited at higher temperatures. Nucleation is also shown to play an important role during rapid (similar to 10 m/s) propagation of the combustion (reaction) wave along the Al/Ni foils. These findings suggest new approaches for controlling the ignition and combustion processes for nanostructured reactive materials.

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