Modified nanoenergetic composites with tunable combustion characteristics for propellant applications

Propellants, Explosives, Pyrotechnics

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 384-394

  Bezmelnitsyn, Andrey ^a   Thiruvengadathan, Rajagopalan ^a   Barizuddin, Syed ^a   Tappmeyer, Daniel ^a   Apperson, Steven ^a   Gangopadhyay, Keshab ^a   Gangopadhyay, Shubhra ^a   Redner, Paul ^b   Donadio, Mike ^b   Kapoor, Deepak ^b   Nicolich, Steven ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b US Army ARDEC   (United States)

Author keywords

Combustion; Nanoenergetics; Propellant; Reactivity; Thermites

Indexed keywords

AL-NANOPARTICLES; ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES; CELLULOSE ACETATE BUTYRATES; CHARACTERISTIC PROPERTIES; COMBUSTION CHARACTERISTICS; COMBUSTION WAVES; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; MAIN CHARACTERISTICS; MATRIX; MESO-PORES; MESOPOROUS; NANO ENERGETICS; NITROGEN ADSORPTION-DESORPTION; OTHER APPLICATIONS; PEAK PRESSURE; POLYMER LOADING; PRESSURE EXPONENTS; RATE OF INCREASE; REACTIVITY; SEM; TEM; THERMITES; WET-IMPREGNATION;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; CELLULOSIC RESINS; COMPOSITE PROPELLANTS; DESORPTION; DYES; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; GAS ABSORPTION; GAS ADSORPTION; HEAT RADIATION; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NANOPARTICLES; POLYMERS; PROPELLANTS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPACECRAFT PROPULSION; SPEED; WAVELET TRANSFORMS; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

COMBUSTION;

CELLULOSE PLASTICS; COMBUSTION; DESORPTION; DYES; FOURIER ANALYSIS; INFRARED RADIATION; POLYMERS; PROPELLANTS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPECTROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 77955206996     PISSN: 07213115     EISSN: 15214087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prep.200800077     Document Type: Article

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