建立了一台用于纳米粉体制备的电爆炸金属丝装置,它可以在不打开放电腔体情况下,依次电爆炸8根金属丝。对电爆炸金属丝进行了电路模拟,电路模拟结果表明,减小放电回路电感,或在保持电容器初始储能不变条件下,提高充电电压的同时减小储能电容可提高能量注入速率。为了理解金属蒸气形成纳米粉体的物理过程,利用马赫-曾德激光干涉方法,研究了丝爆后金属蒸气及等离子体的演化过程,得到了电爆丝的典型物理图像,观察到电爆丝中金属蒸气喷发的“热滞后”现象及金属蒸气的多次喷发现象。并利用电爆丝法制备了氮化钛、二氧化钛、铜氧化物和氧化锌的纳米粉体。

A device for nano-powder production by electrical explosion of wires was designed and built. Eight wires housed in the discharge chamber are exploded one by one before opening the chamber for the collection of the produced nano-powder. To increase the rate of energy deposition into a wire,the electrical behavior of the discharge circuit including the exploding wire was simulated. The results showed that both reducing the circuit inductance and reducing the capacitance of the energy-storage capacitor (keeping the storage energy constant) can increase the energy deposition rate. To better understand the physical processes of the nano-powder formation by the wire vapor,a Mach-Zehnder interferometer was used to record the time evolution of the wire vapor as well as the plasma. A thermal expansion lag of the dense vapor core as well as more than one times of the vapor burst was observed for the first time. Finally,nano-powders of titanium nitride,titanium dioxide,copper oxides and zinc oxide were produced by electrical explosion of wires.