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Improved thermal properties of Al powders coated with submicron-sized hollow nickel particles

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 January 2011

Jialiang Cheng ,
Huey H. Hng ,
Hsiao Y. Ng ,
Pei C. Soon  and
Yiew W. Lee
Huey H. Hng*
Affiliation:
School of Materials Science & Engineering, Division of Materials Science, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 639798, Singapore
Yiew W. Lee
Affiliation:
DSO National Laboratories, Singapore 11, Singapore
*
a) Address all correspondence to this author. e-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

This work investigates the coating of nano- to submicron-sized hollow nickel particles onto Al powders to optimize the thermal and combustion properties of Al-based energetic materials. Different wt% of hollow nickel particles coated onto Al particles was synthesized using an autocatalytic aqueous reduction method. X-ray diffraction results showed distinct crystalline Al and Ni phases indicating that a pure coating process was achieved. Homogeneous coating of hollow nickel particles onto individual Al particles was also reflected from the scanning electron microscope images. All the samples showed significant improvements in terms of their ignition and kinetics of combustion as compared to untreated Al. The most promising candidate produced was the 30wt%Ni–Al sample whereby the %complete combustion of Al exhibited the largest improvement. The hollow Ni-coated Al samples were also found to perform better than their physically mixed Ni–Al powder samples, as there is more intimate contact between the two components to hasten the overall combustion kinetics.

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AlEnergetic materialNi
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Journal of Materials Research , Volume 24 , Issue 10 , October 2009 , pp. 3220 - 3225
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2009

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