Synergistically Chemical and Thermal Coupling between Graphene Oxide and Graphene Fluoride for Enhancing Aluminum Combustion

Jiang, Yue; Deng, Sili; Hong, Sungwook; Tiwari, Subodh; Chen, Haihan; Nomura, Ken-ichi; Kalia, Rajiv K.; Nakano, Aiichiro; Vashishta, Priya; Zachariah, Michael R.; Zheng, Xiaolin

doi:10.1021/acsami.9b20397

Title: Synergistically Chemical and Thermal Coupling between Graphene Oxide and Graphene Fluoride for Enhancing Aluminum Combustion

Journal Article · 16 January 2020 · ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.9b20397 · OSTI ID:1802691

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Stanford Univ., CA (United States); OSTI
Stanford Univ., CA (United States); Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)
Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA (United States). Collaboratory for Advanced Computing and Simulations; California State Univ. (CalState), Bakersfield, CA (United States)
Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA (United States). Collaboratory for Advanced Computing and Simulations
Univ. of California, Riverside, CA (United States)
Stanford Univ., CA (United States)

Metal combustion reaction is highly exothermic and is used in energetic applications, such as propulsion, pyrotechnics, powering micro- and nano-devices, and nanomaterials synthesis. Aluminum (Al) is attracting great interest in those applications because of its high energy density, earth abundance, and low toxicity. Nevertheless, Al combustion is hard to initiate and progresses slowly and incompletely. On the other hand, ultrathin carbon nanomaterials, such as graphene, graphene oxide (GO), and graphene fluoride (GF), can also undergo exothermic reactions. Herein, we demonstrate that the mixture of GO and GF significantly improves the performance of Al combustion as interactions between GO and GF provide heat and radicals to accelerate Al oxidation. Overall, our experiments and reactive molecular dynamics simulation reveal that GO and GF have strong chemical and thermal couplings through radical reactions and heat released from their oxidation reactions. GO facilitates the dissociation of GF, and GF accelerates the disproportionation and oxidation of GO. When the mixture of GO and GF is added to micron-sized Al particles, their synergistic couplings generate reactive oxidative species, such as CF_x and CF_xO_y, and heat, which greatly accelerates Al combustion. This work demonstrates a new area of using synergistic couplings between ultrathin carbon nanomaterials to accelerate metal combustion and potentially oxidation reactions of other materials.

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Research Organization:: Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: US Office of Naval Research (ONR); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0014607

OSTI ID:: 1802691

Journal Information:: ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, Journal Name: ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces Journal Issue: 6 Vol. 12; ISSN 1944-8244

Publisher:: American Chemical Society (ACS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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