SiO2包覆CaCO3在无保护气氛下制备闭孔泡沫镁.pdfVIP

Trans. Nonferrous Met. Soc. China 23(2013) 1832−1837 Preparation of closed-cell Mg foams using SiO -coated CaCO as blowing agent in atmosphere 2 3 Guo-qiang LU, Hai HAO, Fu-yun WANG, Xing-guo ZHANG School of Materials Science and Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116023, China Received 19 June 2012; accepted 25 September 2012 Abstract: In melt foaming method, the thermal stability and foaming speed of blowing agent significantly affect the pore structure, pore size and porosity of metal foams. To retard the foaming speed and increase thermal stability, Na O·nSiO and dilute 2 2 hydrochloric acid were used to coat SiO passive layer on the surface of CaCO which is the blowing agent of Mg foams. Thermal 2 3 stability and microstructure of the SiO2 passive layer were studied by thermo gravimetric analyzer−differential thermal analysis (TGA−DTA), X-ray diffraction (XRD) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). The results show that the thermal stability of coated CaCO3 is improved. The SiO2 layer is amorphous with reticular structure. Contrasting experiments reveal that the coated CaCO can foam placidly. Moreover, large size and homogeneous Mg foams were prepared without protective gas with the ignition- 3 proof by alloying. And the porosity of the Mg foams is 60%−70%. Key words: melt foaming; close-cell