Title :
Development of Avrami´s kinetics to describe growth of Bi-2223 crystals
Author :
Chen, Wu Ming ; Jiang, Xu Chuan ; Yavuz, Mustafa ; Kambe, Shiro
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Mater. Sci. & Eng., Univ. of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Abstract :
The Avrami´s kinetics was known to be the best theory to describe Bi-2223 crystals growth. Whereas, it cannot explain the fact that maximum product volume appearing at optimum sintering time during synthesis Bi-2223 crystal. Meanwhile, the Avrami´s equation can also be used to determine the activation energy of Bi-2223 crystal growth; unfortunately, the determined activation energy, E, had dispersion as much as hard to be accepted by researchers themselves. To solve those problems, we studied and developed Avrami´s kinetics and obtained a developed Avrami´s kinetics equation in this research. With the developed Avrami equation, the index of growth, n, and E of Bi-2223 crystals were determined, including the periods of Bi-2223 crystals growing and decomposing. The n and E for Bi-2223 crystals were changing during synthesis period, values of which can be positive, zero or negative for different reaction periods. And the negative E and n were no reports to be found before, which caused by the decomposition of the product. The developed kinetics can describe a phase transformation system that with metastable or stable product. The developed kinetics theory, as a universal theoretical tool, is expected to be widely applied in the science and engineering multidisciplines and their related interdisciplines.
Keywords :
bismuth compounds; calcium compounds; crystal growth; lead compounds; reaction kinetics theory; sintering; strontium compounds; superconducting transitions; Avrami kinetic equation; Avrami kinetics; Bi-2223 crystal growth; BiPbSr2Ca2Cu3O10; activation energy; decomposition; optimum sintering time; phase transformation system; product volume; Australia; Crystals; Educational institutions; Equations; High temperature superconductors; Kinetic theory; Mathematical model; Bi-2223 crystal; activation energy; avrami kinetics; metastable state; phase transformation;
Conference_Titel :
Applied Superconductivity and Electromagnetic Devices (ASEMD), 2011 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Sydney, NSW
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-7852-1
DOI :
10.1109/ASEMD.2011.6145087