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The formation of Bi-Li alloy and its potential mechanism to improve the hydrolysis kinetics of Al had been presented in the paper. Bi-Li alloy could exist steadily and deposited on Al surface uniformly from XRD and SEM-EDX results because Bi-Li alloy had low melting temperature. The formation of Al- BiLi3microstructure created active sites which produced galvanic micro cell of Al and Bi in the hydrolysis process. Therefore, hydrolysis performance of Al- BiLi3 composites was significantly improved with BiLi3 content increasing.
BiLi3 alloy, hydrolysis, active sites
This work was financially supported by research fund of key laboratory for advanced technology in environmental projection of Jiangsu province and Guangxi Key Laboratory of Information Ma-terials (Guilin University of Electronic Technology), China (Project No. 1210908-02-K).
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