Influence of Oxygen Concentration on Plasma Dynamic Synthesis Product in Fe-O System

Abstract:

In spite of being known for centuries, iron oxides are still important. Such modifications as magnetite Fe₃O₄ and epsilon phase ε-Fe₂O₃ are of great scientific and practical interest due to their promising electromagnetic properties. Nonetheless, only few methods allow synthesizing both of these phases, but they have some well-known disadvantages, which limit the possibility of using them widely. This work shows a unique method of synthesizing these materials in one short-duration plasma dynamic process using a coaxial magnetoplasma accelerator with iron electrode system. The plasma chemical reaction occurs between the iron-containing plasma and gaseous precursor (oxygen). The influence of oxygen pressure on the products of plasma dynamic synthesis was also studied in the framework of this investigation. It was found that the higher oxygen concentration leads to the formation of product with predominant content of epsilon iron oxide ε-Fe₂O₃, as well as lower oxygen concentration results in obtaining the product with the dominance of magnetite phase.

• Periodical: Solid State Phenomena (Volume 265)
• Pages: 652-656
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/SSP.265.652
• Online since: September 2017
• Authors: Ivan Shanenkov*, A. Sivkov, A. Ivashutenko
• Keywords: Electrodischarge Plasma, Iron Oxide, Oxygen Pressure Influence, Synthesis

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