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Probing the Reaction Mechanism of Aluminum/Poly(vinylidene Fluoride) Composites

Probing the Reaction Mechanism of Aluminum/Poly(vinylidene Fluoride) Composites

Jeffery B DeLisio, Xiuli Hu, Tao Wu, Garth C Egan, Gregory Young, Michael R Zachariah

J Phys Chem B. 2016 Jun 23;120(24):5534-42.

PMID: 27228361

Abstract:

Energetic thin films with high mass loadings of nanosized components have been recently fabricated using electrospray deposition. These films are composed of aluminum nanoparticles (nAl) homogeneously dispersed in an energetic fluoropolymer binder, poly(vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF). The nascent oxide shell of the nAl has been previously shown to undergo a preignition reaction (PIR) with fluoropolymers such as polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE). This work examines the PIR between alumina and PVDF to further explain the reaction mechanism of the Al/PVDF system. Temperature jump (T-jump) ignition experiments in air, argon, and vacuum environments showed that the nAl is fluorinated by gas phase species due to a decrease in reactivity in a vacuum. Thermogravimetric analysis coupled with differential scanning calorimetry (TGA/DSC) was used to confirm the occurrence of a PIR, and gas phase products during the PIR and fluorination of nAl were investigated with temperature jump time-of-flight mass spectrometry (T-jump TOFMS). Results show a direct correlation between the amount of alumina in the PVDF film and the relative signal intensity of hydrogen fluoride release (HF). Although the PIR between alumina and PVDF plays an important role in the Al/PVDF reaction mechanism, burn speeds of Al/PVDF films containing additional pure alumina particles showed no burn speed enhancement.

Chemicals Related in the Paper:

Catalog Number	Product Name	Structure	CAS Number	Price
AP79821639	Poly[4-vinylpyridinium poly(hydrogen fluoride)]		79821-63-9	Price

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