Heats of combustion and formation of new energetic thermoplastic elastomers based on GAP, polyNIMMO and polyGLYN

Propellants, Explosives, Pyrotechnics

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 101-106

  Diaz, Emmanuela ^a,b   Brousseau, Patrick ^b   Ampleman, Guy ^b   Prud'homme, Robert Emery ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b DEFENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CANADA VALCARTIER   (Canada)

Author keywords

Calorimetry; Energetic Thermoplastic Elastomers (ETPE); Heat of Combustion; Heat of Formation; Polymers

Indexed keywords

CALORIMETRY; COMBUSTION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

HEAT OF FORMATION;

THERMOPLASTIC ELASTOMERS;

EID: 0038720485     PISSN: 07213115     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prep.200390015     Document Type: Article

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