• High Power Laser and Particle Beams
  • Vol. 34, Issue 5, 052002 (2022)
Wenting Xu1、2, Jie Li2, Yiyang Liu2, Qiang Chen2, Yong Yi1、3、*, and Meifang Liu2、*
Author Affiliations
  • 1School of Materials Science and Engineering, Southwest University of Science and Technology, Mianyang 621010, China
  • 2Laser Fusion Research Center, CAEP, Mianyang 621900, China
  • 3State Key Laboratory for Environment-friendly Energy Materials, Southwest University of Science and Technology, Mianyang 621010, China
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    DOI: 10.11884/HPLPB202234.210557 Cite this Article
    Wenting Xu, Jie Li, Yiyang Liu, Qiang Chen, Yong Yi, Meifang Liu. Investigation into preparation of thin-walled polystyrene hollow microspheres for ICF[J]. High Power Laser and Particle Beams, 2022, 34(5): 052002 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    As an effective way to explore controlled nuclear fusion, laser inertial confinement fusion (ICF) is expected to obtain clean and pollution-free energy. Thin-walled polystyrene (PS) hollow microspheres are a type of microspheres urgently needed in ICF physics experiments. Thin-walled hollow microspheres are easy to crack while drying and being used due to the increase in diameter-to-thickness ratio (diameter/wall thickness). In this work, the influence of the PS materials on the quality of thin-walled microspheres was studied, and the mechanism was discussed. The results show that when the oil phase (PS) mass fraction was 4%, the stability of W1/O/W2 composite emulsion particles gradually increased with the increase of oil phase viscosity; when the oil phase mass fraction was not less than 8%, the stability of compound droplets was fine. There is no significant difference in the surface roughness of the corresponding microspheres. The sphericity and wall thickness uniformity of microspheres decreased with the increase of initial oil phase viscosity. In the drying process, the cracking rate of microspheres decreased with the increase of oil phase viscosity. The rate of microsphere cracking decreases as the mechanical properties of the raw material improves. To compensate for the adverse effect of the increase in oil phase viscosity on the sphericity and uniformity of the wall thickness of the microspheres, fluorobenzene (FB) droplets were introduced into the external water phase to reduce the solidification rate.
    Wenting Xu, Jie Li, Yiyang Liu, Qiang Chen, Yong Yi, Meifang Liu. Investigation into preparation of thin-walled polystyrene hollow microspheres for ICF[J]. High Power Laser and Particle Beams, 2022, 34(5): 052002
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