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Reactive Molecular Dynamics Study of Oxidation of Aggregated Aluminum Nanoparticles

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2015

Ying Li ,
Rajiv K. Kalia ,
Aiichiro Nakano  and
Priya Vashishta
Ying Li
Affiliation:
Collaboratory for Advanced Computing and Simulations, Department of Chemical Engineering & Materials Science, Physics & Astronomy and Computer Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0242, U.S.A. Argonne Leadership Computing Facility, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439, U.S.A.
Rajiv K. Kalia
Affiliation:
Collaboratory for Advanced Computing and Simulations, Department of Chemical Engineering & Materials Science, Physics & Astronomy and Computer Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0242, U.S.A.
Aiichiro Nakano
Affiliation:
Collaboratory for Advanced Computing and Simulations, Department of Chemical Engineering & Materials Science, Physics & Astronomy and Computer Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0242, U.S.A.
Priya Vashishta
Affiliation:
Collaboratory for Advanced Computing and Simulations, Department of Chemical Engineering & Materials Science, Physics & Astronomy and Computer Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0242, U.S.A.
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Abstract

Oxidation behavior of aggregated aluminum nanoparticles (Al-NPs), specifically the combustion propagation, is studied, when only part of the aggregated Al-NPs is heated to 1100 K and the rest of the system is kept at 300 K. Here, multi-million atoms molecular dynamics (MD) simulation reveals the sintering/coalescence phenomena for the different diameters (D = 26, 36 and 46 nm) aggregated systems. Various consuming rates of core aluminum are investigated for different layers and different diameters aggregated systems. The formation of Al2O3 fragments outside the shell (the largest covalently bonded aluminum-oxide cluster) structure is confirmed from AlO and AlO2 intermediates. The smaller size of Al-NPs results in faster trend of transition from Al-rich to O-rich for most outside small clusters. However, more core aluminum reacts with shell oxygen leads to faster decreasing of the ratio of O/Al in the shell fragment for larger Al-NPs system.

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Alnanostructuresimulation
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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 1758: Symposium VV – Recent Advances in Reactive Materials , 2015 , mrsf14-1758-vv03-03
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2015 

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