Organic Aerogel Materials as Nanostructured Energetic Composites

Organic Aerogel Materials as Nanostructured Energetic Composites 

One will note the high mole percentage of oxidizer needed to balance this reaction which corresponds to a high weight percentage of inter-pore oxidizer salt deposited in the overall composite. The resorcinol-formaldehyde/ammonium nitrate (RFIAN) reaction shown 

The same investigators have successfully applied cryogel processing to prepare composite of a nitrocellulose gel (an energetic gel), polyurethane cross-linked nitrocellulose and the energetic material CL-20 [50]. Under those processing conditions, all of the components were initially in solution, which enabled the formation of nanoparticles of the 

Work was performed under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Energy by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory tmder Contract DE-AC52-07NA27344. 

Gash AE, Satcher JH, Simpson RL (2002) Direct preparation of nanostructured energetic materials using sol-gel methods. In Miziolek, AW, Kama Sp, Mauro JM, Vaia Ra (Eds.) Defense applications of nanomateir-als. Washington DC American Chemical Society. 

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