Abstract
LaMgAl11O19(LMA),characterized by high melting point,low density and thermal conductivity as well as good infrared emissivity,is regarded as a potential candidate for the thermal protection of hyper-sonic vehicles.Nevertheless,the unsatisfied phase stability at high temperature results in declining of the emissivity below 6 μm,which limits the extensive applications of LaMgAl11O19.In order to overcome this obstacle,three dense bulk high-entropy ceramics,(La0.2Nd0.2Gd0.2Sm0.2Pr0.2)MgAl11O19(HE LMA-1),(La0.2Nd0.2Gd0.2Sm0.2Dy0.2)Mg Al11O19(HE LMA-2)and La(Mg0.2Fe0.2Co0.2Ni0.2Zn0.2)Al11O19(HE LMA-3),were designed and successfully prepared through solid state reaction at 1700℃for 4 h in one step.XRD analyses show that the phase compositions of HE LMA-1,HE LMA-2 and HE LMA-3 are single-phase solid solutions with the relative density of 95.61%,95.49%and 94.31%,respectively.Heat treatment experiments demonstrate that the phase composition of HE LMA-1 remains a single phase after high-temperature heating,while second phase appears in other two samples.The stability of HE LMA-1 is attributed to small average size difference δ(~4%)of constitute elements.Intriguingly,the average emissivity of HE LMA-1 in the range of 3-6 μm reaches 0.9,which is significantly higher than that of LMA and other two HE LMA samples.The emissivity of all samples remains above 0.95 from 6 to 10 μm.In the far infrared region(10-14 μm),although the emissivity of these specimens decreases slightly,it still exceeds 0.85.The UV-Vis absorption spectra indicate that the formation of many discrete impurity energy levels with small intervals in HE LMA-1 promotes the f electrons to transit between adjacent impurity energy levels and conduction band,which enhances the infrared emission of HE LMA-1 below 6 μm.In a word,with improved phase stability and thermal emissivity in infrared range,high-entropy REMgAl11O19,especially(La0.2Nd0.2Gd0.2Sm0.2Pr0.2)MgAl11O19(HE LMA-1),is a promising candidate in thermal protection coatings of hypersonic vehicles.
基金项目
National Natural Science Foun-dation of China under grant(51772027)
National Natural Science Foun-dation of China under grant(51972089)