Elementary surface chemistry during CuO/Al nanolaminate-thermite synthesis: copper and oxygen deposition on aluminum (111) surfaces

C Lanthony, M Guiltat, JM Ducéré… - … applied materials & …, 2014 - ACS Publications
The surface chemistry associated with the synthesis of energetic nanolaminates controls the
formation of the critical interfacial layers that dominate the performances of nanothermites …

Nanoscale transition metal thin films: Growth characteristics and scaling law for interlayer formation

A Chandrasekaran, RWE van de Kruijs… - … applied materials & …, 2019 - ACS Publications
A comprehensive study on the growth of nanoscale transition metal-on-transition metal (TM-
on-TM) systems is presented. The near room-temperature intermixing and segregation …

Self-Organized Al2Cu Nanocrystals at the Interface of Aluminum-Based Reactive Nanolaminates to Lower Reaction Onset Temperature

L Marín, B Warot-Fonrose, A Estève… - … Applied Materials & …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Nanoenergetic materials are beginning to play an important role in part because they are
being considered as energetic components for materials, chemical, and biochemical …

Formation of Al/CuO bilayer films: Basic mechanisms through density functional theory calculations

C Lanthony, JM Ducéré, A Estève, C Rossi… - Thin Solid Films, 2012 - Elsevier
We carry out Density Functional Theory calculations of the initial steps of CuO deposition
onto Al (111) surface and Al deposition onto CuO (11–1) surface to investigate the basic …

Ru/Al multilayers integrate maximum energy density and ductility for reactive materials

K Woll, A Bergamaschi, K Avchachov, F Djurabekova… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Established and already commercialized energetic materials, such as those based on Ni/Al
for joining, lack the adequate combination of high energy density and ductile reaction …

Atomic scale analysis of phase formation and diffusion kinetics in Ag/Al multilayer thin films

H Aboulfadl, I Gallino, R Busch… - Journal of Applied Physics, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
Thin films generally exhibit unusual kinetics leading to chemical reactions far from
equilibrium conditions. Binary metallic multilayer thin films with miscible elements show …

Effect of interface morphology on intermetallics formation upon annealing of Al–Ni multilayer

M Swain, S Singh, S Basu, M Gupta - Journal of alloys and compounds, 2013 - Elsevier
Following Benès rule, the initial phase formed at interface of Al–Ni multilayer on annealing is
Al 3 Ni. On further annealing it should give rise to intermetallics Al 3 Ni 2, AlNi and AlNi 3 …

Thermodynamically driven Al migration across ultrathin Ag layered electrodes without thermal loading

G Zhao, E Jeong, SG Lee, JS Bae, SM Yu, SZ Han… - Applied Surface …, 2022 - Elsevier
The use of metallic dopants and seeds as wetting inducers for synthesizing ultrathin Ag
layers on chemically heterogeneous oxides has been criticized for inducing nonnegligible …

Atomic-level investigation of interface structure in Ni–Al multilayer system: molecular dynamics simulation

SG Lee, SP Kim, KR Lee, YC Chung - Journal of magnetism and magnetic …, 2005 - Elsevier
In the present work, we investigated deposition behavior of atomic-level interface and
surface structure when Ni atoms were deposited on Al (001) substrate according to substrate …

Metastable Al-Fe intermetallic stabilised by epitaxial relationship

D Dubaux, É Gaudry, MC de Weerd, S Šturm… - Applied Surface …, 2020 - Elsevier
We report the adsorption of Fe for several dosing conditions on Al (1 0 0) surface held at
different temperatures. For 2 monolayer equivalent of Fe deposited on the substrate held at …