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JOURNAL OF ALLOYS AND COMPOUNDS
Volume 763, Issue -, Pages 153-158Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.jallcom.2018.05.187
Keywords
Oxidation kinetics; Pulsed laser nitriding; Reflectance spectroscopy; Activation energy; Corrosion resistance
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) [11504344, 21503198, U1630250]
- CAEP Research Fund [YZJJLX2016006]
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The oxidation kinetics of a uranium surface treated by pulsed laser nitriding was studied using reflectance spectroscopy. The growth of the oxide thickness generally followed a parabolic growth model for the nitrided uranium with pure O-2, which agreed with the diffusion barrier model. The activation energy was 98 kJ/mol and was obtained by monitoring the oxide growth in the temperature range 400-460 K. As a comparison, the growth of the oxide thickness of untreated uranium was also monitored, which indicated that the nitriding treatment improved the corrosion resistance of uranium. This may be due to the formation of UNO compounds on the surface of nitrided uranium after oxidation, which can resist the diffusion of oxygen ions into the inner layer. (C) 2018 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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