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Exothermic behaviour of aluminium and graphene as a fuel in Fe2O3 based nanothermite

  • Priya Thakur ORCID logo , Vimal Sharma EMAIL logo and Nagesh Thakur
Published/Copyright: May 28, 2021
Zeitschrift für Naturforschung A
From the journal Zeitschrift für Naturforschung A Volume 76 Issue 8

Abstract

The main frontier of this research is to study the influence of multi-layer graphene (MLG) and aluminium as a fuel in Al/Fe2O3 and MLG/Fe2O3 nanothermites, fabricated by physical mixing and ultrasonication techniques. To study the structural and energy release properties, prepared samples were characterized by XRD, FESEM, EDS, FTIR, Raman spectroscopy and DSC. The X-ray diffraction (XRD) technique showed that all the phases remain intact during the synthesis. Field emission electron microscopy (FESEM) micrographs displayed the surface morphology of the samples, and besides this, energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS) was used to check the elemental composition of samples. Raman spectroscopy revealed that the ultrasonication waves did not deteriorate the aromatic structure of graphene sheets. Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) spectra were used to observe the information about various functional groups present in the thermite samples. The exothermic energy released by the thermite reaction in both the samples was investigated by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and the observed values of energy release for Al/Fe2O3 and MLG/Fe2O3 are 215 J/g and 1640 J/g.

Keywords: energetic materials; energy release; multi-layered graphene; physical mixing; thermite reaction
Corresponding author: Vimal sharma, Department of Physics and Photonics, National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur177005, India, E-mail:

  1. Author contribution: All the authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this submitted manuscript and approved submission.

  2. Research funding: None declared.

  3. Conflict of interest statement: The authors declare no conflicts of interest regarding this article.

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Received: 2021-02-23
Revised: 2021-04-27
Accepted: 2021-04-29
Published Online: 2021-05-28
Published in Print: 2021-08-26

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Keywords for this article
energetic materials; energy release; multi-layered graphene; physical mixing; thermite reaction

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