Synthesis and stability of iron nanoparticles for lunar environment studies

Details Synthesis and stability of iron nanoparticles for lunar environment studies Synthesis and stability of iron nanoparticles for lunar environment studies

Jun 2010

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Meteoritics and Planetary Science, Volume 45, Issue 6, pp. 965-972.

Physics

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Simulants of lunar dust are needed when researching the lunar environment. However, unlike the true lunar dust, today's simulants do not contain nanophase iron. Two different processes have been developed to fabricate nanophase iron to be used as part of a lunar dust simulant. (1) The first is to sequentially treat a mixture of ferric chloride, fluorinated carbon, and soda lime glass beads at about 300°C in nitrogen, at room temperature in air, and then at 1050°C in nitrogen. The product includes glass beads that are gray in color, can be attracted by a magnet, and contains α-iron nanoparticles (which seem to slowly lose their lattice structure in ambient air during a period of 12months). This product may have some similarity to the lunar glassy agglutinate, which contains FeO. (2) The second is to heat a mixture of carbon black and a lunar simulant (a mixed metal oxide that includes iron oxide) at 1050°C in nitrogen. This process simulates lunar dust reactions with the carbon in a micrometeorite at the time of impact. The product contains a chemically modified simulant that can be attracted by a magnet and has a surface layer whose iron concentration increased during the reaction. The iron was found to be α-iron and Fe3O4 nanoparticles, which appear to grow after the fabrication process. This growth became undetectable after 6months of ambient air storage, but may last for several years or longer.

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