The invention discloses aluminum-based
powder fuel with a
grain boundary oxygen vacancy channel and a preparation method and application of the aluminum-based
powder fuel, and particularly relates to the technical field of
metal fuel and aluminum-based
alloy powder fuel. The method comprises the following steps: heating and melting pure aluminum to form an aluminum melt; then, Al-RE intermediate
alloy is added into the aluminum melt, and the total content of the
rare earth element RE in the melt is adjusted to be 0.1-7 wt%; and finally, the uniformly mixed melt is subjected to controlled supersonic atomization and rapid solidification, and the aluminum-based
alloy powder is obtained. According to the invention, after powder
combustion, a
rare earth oxide channel rich in
oxygen vacancy defects is constructed at a
crystal boundary, and then oxidative
combustion is further promoted. Lattice
distortion and in-situ
solid solution of
boron atoms are caused by the
radius difference of double
rare earth (Ce / La) atoms, so that the formation energy of
oxygen vacancies is greatly reduced. In the
combustion process, high-concentration oxygen vacancies form a high-speed oxygen
transmission channel, barrier of a compact oxidation film is broken, oxygen can rapidly permeate into particle cores, and the burn-
off rate and energy release efficiency of aluminum powder are remarkably improved.