Metastable intermolecular composites MICs

Various further experiments with laser radiation as an ignition and initiation source have been conducted since the seventies. For example, for the ignition of propellants, various pyrotechnic mixtures and metastable intermolecular composites (MICs), the effects of the laser wavelength, gas pressure or dopants on the initiation thresholds, the development of laser initiated detonators, as well as a... 

Formulations based on nanoreactants also known as metastable intermolecular composites (abbreviated as MIC and pronounced as Mick , also referred to as super-thermites or nano-energetic mixtures) were first reported by U.S. Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) and appear to be very attractive for a number of applications [103]. Some important MICs are illustrated here along with their properties. 

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