Energetic materials polymeric

The physicochemical properties of explosives are fundamentally equivalent to those of propellants. Explosives are also made of energetic materials such as nitropolymers and composite materials composed of crystalline particles and polymeric materials. TNT, RDX, and HMX are typical energetic crystalline materials used as explosives. Furthermore, when ammonium nitrate (AN) particles are mixed with an oil, an energetic explosive named ANFO (ammonium nitrate fuel oil) is formed. AN with water is also an explosive, named slurry explosive, used in industrial and civil engineering. A difference between the materials used as explosives and propellants is not readily evident. Propellants can be detonated when they are subjected to excess heat energy or mechanical shock. Explosives can be deflagrated steadily without a detonation wave when they are gently heated without mechanical shock. 

Slurry explosives consist of saturated aqueous solutions of ammonium nitrate with sensitizing additives.[i-3] Nitrates such as monomethylamine nitrate, ethylene glycol mononitrate, or ethanolamine mononitrate are used as sensitizers. Aluminum powder is also added as an energetic material. Table 4.15 shows a typical chemical composition of a slurry explosive. It is important that so-called micro-bubbles are present within the explosives in order to facilitate the initial detonation and the ensuing detonation wave. These micro-bubbles are made of glass or polymeric materials. 

Energetic materials (oxidizer) Polymeric materials (energetic binder) Polymeric materials (binder and fuel)... 

The selechon of fuel components to be mixed with oxidizer components is also an important issue in the development of pyrolants for various applications. Metal particles are used as fuel components to develop small-scale pyrolant charges as deployed in igniters, flares, and fireworks. Non-metal particles such as boron and carbon are used to formulate energetic pyrolants. Polymeric materials are commonly used as fuel components to develop relatively large-scale pyrolant charges, such as gas generators and fuel-rich propellants. 

HMX and RDX are energetic materials that produce high-temperature combustion products at about 3000 K. If one assumes that the combustion products at high temperature are HjO, Nj, and CO, rather than COj, both nitramines are considered to be stoichiometricaUy balanced materials and no excess oxidizer or fuel fragments are formed. When HMX or RDX particles are mixed with a polymeric hydrocarbon, a nitramine pyrolant is formed. Each nitramine particle is surrounded by the polymer and hence the physical structure is heterogeneous, similar to that of an AP composite pyrolant... 

As described in Sections 4.2.4.1 and 5.2.2, GAP is a unique energetic material that burns very rapidly without any oxidation reaction. When the azide bond is cleaved to produce nitrogen gas, a significant amount of heat is released by the thermal decomposition. Glycidyl azide prepolymer is polymerized with HMDI to form GAP copolymer, which is crosslinked with TMP. The physicochemical properties of the GAP pyrolants used in VFDR are shown in Table 15.3.PI The major fuel components are H2, GO, and G(g), which are combustible fragments when mixed with air in the ramburner. The remaining products consist mainly of Nj with minor amounts of GOj and HjO. 

Photochemical reactions in organic solids are important in practical fields as diverse as photography, biology, photoresist technology, polymerization, and the decomposition and stabilization of dyes, energetic materials, pharmaceuticals, and polymers [1], They have been equally important in basic research, particularly for preparing matrix-isolated reactive intermediates for spectroscopic investigation [2]. 

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