The disperse, structural, and electrophysical characteristics of fine alumina produced by combustion of metal droplet agglomerates were studied experimentally. Data were obtained by transmission electron microscopy and video recording of aerosol particles moving in a homogeneous electric field. The aerosol particles are aggregates with sizes ranging from a fraction of a micrometer to a few micrometers and a fractal dimension of 1.60 ± 0.04 which consist of primary particles with sizes of a few to hundred nanometers. Most of the aggregates have electric charges, both positive and negative. The characteristic charge of the aggregates is equal to a few units of elementary charge. Some large aggregates rotate when the electric field polarity changes, i.e., they are dipoles. According to current concepts [1, 2], fine alumina is formed in the combustion of liquid aluminum drops by "chemical" condensation in the zone of diffusion mi-croflame around the particle. The microflame is at a distance of the order of the particle size from the particle surface. Further coagulation growth of oxide particles occurs in the "smoke tail" formed by particle motion in the carrying gas flow. The size distribution and morphology of the aerosol particle microaggregates formed by condensation-coagulation growth can depend appreciably on the magnitude of the electric charges gained by primary particles during the physicochemical stages of combustion [3]. In the literature, little experimental information can be found on the charge (electrophysical) and morphological properties of fine alumina particles formed during combustion of aluminum droplets [4]. The present work is an attempt to fill this gap. Alumina aerosol was produced by combustion of aluminized solid propellant samples. The sample in the form of a parallelepiped 20-25 mm in length with a section of 1 × 1.5 mm was burnt at atmospheric pressure in a twenty-liter container in air filtered from aerosols. The mass of aluminum in the samples was ≈6 mg. The combustion surface of the sample generated several tens of aluminum droplet agglomerates with sizes of 100-500 µm, which burnt up while falling in the container within tenths of a second. This resulted in fine alumina aerosol accumulated in the container. Aerosol was sampled 6 min after burning, and then, its disperse , morphological, and charge characteristics were analyzed. The grain-size composition and morphology of aerosol particles were studied by transmission electron microscopy (JEM-100SX). Samples for electron mi-croscopy were collected by a thermal precipitator. To observe the motion, coagulation, and behavior of the aerosol in an external electric field, we used a facility for video recording in real time (25 frames per second), which consisted of the following basic units. 734
Using the time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau equation, the coupling interaction of the ferroelectric (FE) and ferromagnetic (FM) phases in epitaxial 1-3-type multiferroic thin films was investigated considering the effect of elastic stress arising from the FE/FM and film/substrate interfaces. The result of the authors shows that the maximum polarization and magnetization appear with the FM fractions of 70% and 30%, respectively. The significant changes of the FE and FM properties are caused by the special structure in which the induced misfit strain greatly affects the anisotropy of the crystals and the properties of the materials.
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