Nanoenergetic materials

Fig. 11. Schematics of nanoenergetic materials, left) A trinary system of nanometric metal particle fuel protected by a passivation layer, suspended in a uniform bulk oxidizer matrix. right) Both fuel and oxidizer are nanoparticles, and a binder is used to generate gas that provides a working fluid.

Dlott and co-workers [114,201] have used fast laser spectroscopy to study chemical reactions in nanoenergetic materials consisting of A1 particles in the... 

Understanding how nanoenergetic materials are both made and consumed requires the ability to monitor these processes widi real time in-situ diagnostic techniques. Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) is an optical technique that can detect all the elements simultaneously from very small sanq>les of material. Only four elements are needed to implement this technique an excitation source, delivery and collecting optics, a detector with wavelength dispersion capability, and a conqtuter for control and anal is. Because of these relatively sinq>le requirements, a conq>lete LIBS system can be made contact, rugged, and fairly ine q>ensively. Spectrometers are now becoming commercially... 

Prakash A, McCormick AV, Zachariah MR (2004) Aero-sol-gel synthesis of nanoporous iron oxide particles A potential oxidizer for nanoenergetic materials. Chem Mater 16 1466-1471. 

Teipel U (Ed) (2005) Energetic materials particle processing and characterization. Weinheim Wiley-VCH. Rossi, C, Zhang K, Esteve D, Alphonse P, Tailhades P, Vahlas C (2007) Nanoenergetic materials for MEMS A review. J Microelectromechanical Systems 16(4) 919-931. 

Kim S, Zachariah MR (2004) Enhancing the rate of energy release from nanoenergetic materials by electrostatically enhanced assembly. Adv. Mater. 16(20) 1821-1825. 

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