Molecular Propellers

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On firings the gases from the propellant accelerate the piston that compresses the light gas in front of it. At a preestablished pressure, the projectile is propelled down the launch tube accelerated by the low molecular weight gas which follows the projectile to the mouth of the tube. The target material is placed in front of the launch tube, and appropriate instmmentation used to estabUsh the characteristics of the interface reaction between projectile and target (117-120). 

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The combustion process is carried out in a thrust chamber or a motor case, and the reaction products are momentarily contained therein. The newly formed species are heterogeneous in composition and involve a wide variety of low molecular weight products. The temperature of these products is generally high, and it ranges from about 2,000°F (1,100°C) in gas generators to well over 8,000°F in advanced liquid propellant engines. The combustion products leave the chamber and are directed and expanded in a nozzle to obtain velocities from about 5,000 to 14,000 ft/sec. 

Although blood pressure control follows Ohm s law and seems to be simple, it underlies a complex circuit of interrelated systems. Hence, numerous physiologic systems that have pleiotropic effects and interact in complex fashion have been found to modulate blood pressure. Because of their number and complexity it is beyond the scope of the current account to cover all mechanisms and feedback circuits involved in blood pressure control. Rather, an overview of the clinically most relevant ones is presented. These systems include the heart, the blood vessels, the extracellular volume, the kidneys, the nervous system, a variety of humoral factors, and molecular events at the cellular level. They are intertwined to maintain adequate tissue perfusion and nutrition. Normal blood pressure control can be related to cardiac output and the total peripheral resistance. The stroke volume and the heart rate determine cardiac output. Each cycle of cardiac contraction propels a bolus of about 70 ml blood into the systemic arterial system. As one example of the interaction of these multiple systems, the stroke volume is dependent in part on intravascular volume regulated by the kidneys as well as on myocardial contractility. The latter is, in turn, a complex function involving sympathetic and parasympathetic control of heart rate intrinsic activity of the cardiac conduction system complex membrane transport and cellular events requiring influx of calcium, which lead to myocardial fibre shortening and relaxation and affects the humoral substances (e.g., catecholamines) in stimulation heart rate and myocardial fibre tension. 

The ratio of rocket thrust to propellant mass flow, commonly called the specific impulse (/9p) of the propellant, represents a measure of the force developed per unit mass flow of propellant. From Eq. (2), it is apparent that high propellant-flame temperatures and low molecular-weight combustion products are required to produce high 7sp. 

One extremely important point to realize is that different propellant types may have different rate-controlling processes. For example, the true double-base propellants are mixed on a molecular scale, since both fuel and oxidizing species occur on the same molecule. The mixing of ingredients and their decomposition products has already occurred and can therefore be neglected in any analysis. On the other hand, composite and composite modified-double-base propellants are not mixed to this degree, and hence mixing processes may be important in the analysis of their combustion behavior. 

Another popular method for studying combustion species is via crossed molecular beams. In this technique, the reactant molecules of interest are propelled as beams toward an intersection where their molecular collisions bring about reactions. For a more complete discussion of crossed molecular beam experiments, see reference 59. 

The description of the motions of swimming bacteria like E. coli or molecular motors such as kinesin requires a knowledge of their propulsion mechanisms and the nature of the interactions between these micron and nanoscale objects and the surrounding fluid in which they move. These are only two examples of a large class of small self-propelled objects that one finds in biology. Propulsion occurs by a variety of mechanisms that usually involve the conversion of chemical... 

Propellants may be of a number of different types CFCs, hydrofluoroalkanes (HFAs), or alkanes. The composition impacts upon performance. A numerical system is employed to identify fluorinated propellants. The rules governing this numbering system allow the molecular structure to be derived from the numerical descriptor. The rules may be listed as follows ... 

H0 can be calculated from the propellant composition, but He must be obtained by successive approximation, assuming that the final state of the exhaust gases is known. For present purposes, it is sufficient to note that H0 — He correlates well with the heat of explosion of the solid explosive. In order to obtain the maximum thrust from a rocket it is therefore necessary to achieve the highest combustion temperature, but also necessary to produce gases with the lowest mean molecular weight. 

X-ray structure of this compound shows that the ligand adopts a propeller shape. The sodium ion is contained in the molecular cavity and is coordinated to all eight nitrogen atoms (Caron et al., 1985). 

Another important development in the field was the discovery of the vapor-phase nitration in the 1930s by H. Hass and his students at Purdue University. It led in 1940 to the commercial production of lower molecular weight nitroalkanes [Cl to C4] at a pilot plant of the Commercial Solvents Corporation in Peoria, Illinois. In the organic nitro chemistry era of the fifties and early sixties, a great emphasis of the research was directed towards the synthesis of new compounds that would be useful as potential ingredients in explosives and propellants. 

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Atomistic simulations have been performed on condensed-phase HMX, which is a material that is widely used as an ingredient in various explosives and propellants. A molecular solid at standard state, it has four known... 

Mislow, K., Gust, D., Finocchiaro, P., and Boettcher, R. J. Stereochemical Correspondence Among Molecular Propellers. 47, 1-22 (1974). 

Other structural concepts evolved, one of them being triptycenes (55). Here, additional wings are introduced into the molecules by Diels-Alder type reactions. The glass-forming properties are improved by the propeller-like rigid structure [89]. We end our overview of the different classes of molecular glasses with these materials and note that the number of published structures is growing every year. More details on the different materials can be found in one of the recent chemical reviews [102-104]. 

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