Materials processing using chemically driven spherically symmetric implosions
AssigneeKMS Fusion, Inc.
InventorFrederick J. Mayer
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Abstract
A system and method for obtaining spherically symmetrical implosion of sample materials by directing radiant ignition energy onto a target which includes a spherically symmetrical core of selected sample material concentrically surrounded by a shell of high explosive material. The resulting implosive compression produces hydrodynamically controlled physical and/or chemical and/or metallurgical transformations of state in the sample material.
Claims11
A method of implosive compression for obtaining changes of state in materials comprising the steps of:
- (a) providing a target which includes a core having quantity of selected material with a spherical outer core surface, and a hollow spherically symmetrical shell of high explosive material concentrically surrounding said core surface and having a spherical outer shell surface concentric with said core surface
- obtaining uniform surface ignition at said outer surface of said shell of high explosive material by directing at least one beam of radiant energy onto said target at uniform intensity around said outer shell surface so as to generate spherically symmetrical implosive shock compression of said quantity of material, and
- (c) recovering the resulting product.
A method for obtaining compression-induced polymorphic transition of graphite to diamond comprising the steps of:
- (a) providing a spherical core of graphite,
- (b) concentrically surrounding said graphite shell with a shell of high explosive material, and
- (c) igniting said shell of high explosive material by directing radiant energy at spherically symmetrical intensity onto said explosive shell.
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