Reaction characteristics of Al/Fe2O3 nanocomposites

Moon-Soo Shin; Jae-Kyeong Kim; Jun-Woo Kim; Carlos Alberto Mendes Moraes; Hyoun-Soo Kim; Kee-Kahb Koo

Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, Vol.18, No.5, 1768-1773, September, 2012

DOI10.1016/j.jiec.2012.04.003 Export Citation

Reaction characteristics of Al/Fe2O3 nanocomposites

Moon-Soo Shin, Jae-Kyeong Kim, Jun-Woo Kim, Carlos Alberto Mendes Moraes¹, Hyoun-Soo Kim², and Kee-Kahb Koo^†

Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Sogang University, Seoul 121-742, Republic of Korea
¹Materials Characterization Research Group, University of Vale do Rio Sinos- UNISINOS, Avenue UNISINOS, 950 Sa˜o Leopoldo, 93.022-000, RS, Brazil
²Agency for Defense Development, Daejeon 305-600, Republic of Korea

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Al/Fe2O3 nonacomposites have explosive and high exothermic properties by thermite reaction. In this study, Al/Fe2O3 xerogel nanocomposites were prepared by sol.gel method and thermite reaction performance was compared with those prepared by physical mixing with sonication. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) images of Al/Fe2O3 xerogel nanocomposites show that network structure of Fe2O3 gel covers Al nanoparticles efficiently and this indicates that improvement of thermite reaction performance due to close contact between a fuel and an oxidizer. Optimum mole ratio of Al/Fe was determined to be 2 by thermite reaction performance by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) analysis. At Al/Fe ratio of 2, thermite reaction enthalpy of the Al/Fe2O3 xerogel nancomposite was 991.4 J/g, which was higher by a factor of four than that of the nanocomposite prepared by physical mixing.

Keywords:Thermite;Sol-gel;Nanocomposite

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