Chemistry And Physics Of Energetic Materials

This book represents a collection of lectures presented at the NATO Advanced study Institute(ASI) on "Chemistry & Physics of the Molecular Processes in Energetic Materials", held at Hotel Torre Normanna, Altavilla Milicia, Sicily, Italy, September 3 to 15, 1989. The institute was attended by seventy participants including twenty lecturers, drawn from thirteen countries. The purpose of the institute was to review the major ad vances made in recent years in the theoretical and experi mental aspects of explosives and propellants. In accordance with the format of the NATO ASI, it was arranged to have a relatively small number of speakers to present in depth, re view type lectures emphasizing the basic research aspects of the subject, over a two week period. Most of the speakers gave two lectures, each in excess of one hour with addition al time for discussions. The scope of the meeting was limit ed to molecular and spectroscopic studies since the hydro dynamic aspects of detonation and various performance crite ria of energetic materials are often covered adequately in other international meetings. An attempt was made to have a coherent presentation of various theoretical, computational and spectroscopic approaches to help a better understanding of energetic materials from a molecular point of view. The progress already made in these areas is such that structure property (e. g.

This book offers a comprehensive account of energetic materials, including their synthesis, computational modeling, applications, associated degradation mechanisms, environmental consequences and fate and transport. This multi-author contributed volume describes how armed forces around the world are moving their attention from legacy explosive compounds, which are heat and shock sensitive (thus posing greater challenges in terms of handling and storage), to the insensitive munitions compounds/formulations such as insensitive munitions explosive (IMX) and the Picatinny Arsenal Explosive (PAX) series of compounds. The description of energetic materials focuses on explosives, pyrotechnic compositions, and propellants. The contributors go on to explain how modern generation energetic compounds must be insensitive to shock and heat but at the same time yield more energy upon explosion. Nanoinspired and/or co-crystallized energetic materials offer another route to generate next-generation energetic materials, and this authoritative book bridges a large gap in the literature by providing a comprehensive analysis of these compounds. Additionally, it includes a valuable overview of energetic materials, a detailed discussion of recent advances on future energetic compounds, nanotechnology in energetic materials, environmental contamination and toxicity, assessment of munitions lethality, the application quantitative structure–activity relationship (QSAR) in design of energetics and the fate and transport of munition compounds in the environment.

Advances in Quantum Chemistry presents surveys of current topics in this rapidly developing field that has emerged at the cross section of the historically established areas of mathematics, physics, chemistry, and biology. It features detailed reviews written by leading international researchers. This volume focuses on the theory of heavy ion physics in medicine. This volume presents a series of articles concerning current important topics in quantum chemistry. The invited articles are written by the best people in the field

' Few books cover experimental and theoretical methods to characterize decomposition, combustion and detonation of energetic materials. This volume, by internationally known and major contributors to the field, is unique because it summarizes the most important recent work, what we know with confidence, and what main areas remain to be investigated. Most chapters comprise summaries of work spanning decades and contain expert commentary available nowhere else. Although energetic materials are its focus, this book provides a guide to modern methods for investigations of condensed and gas-phase reactions. Although these energetic reactions are complex and difficult to study, the work discussed here provides readers with a substantial understanding of the behavior of materials now in use, and a predictive capability for the development of new materials based on target properties. Contents:Connecting Molecular Properties to Decomposition, Combustion and Explosion Trends (T B Brill)Thermal Decomposition Processes of Energetic Materials in the Condensed Phase at Low and Moderate Temperatures (R Behrens)Study of Energetic Material Combustion Chemistry by Probing Mass Spectrometry and Modeling of Flames (O P Korobeinichev)Optical Spectroscopic Measurements of Energetic Material Flame Structure (T Parr & D Hanson-Parr)Transient Gas-Phase Intermediates in the Decomposition of Energetic Materials (P J Dagdigian)Role of Excited Electronic States in the Decomposition of Energetic Materials (E R Bernstein)Gas-Phase Kinetics for Propellant Combustion Modeling: Requirements and Experiments (W R Anderson & A Fontijn)Gas-Phase Decomposition of Energetic Molecules (D L Thompson)Modeling the Reactions of Energetic Materials in the Condensed Phase (L E Fried et al.)Multi-Phonon Up-Pumping in Energetic Materials (D D Dlott)Applications of Theoretical Chemistry in Assessing Energetic Materials for Performance or Sensitivity (B M Rice)Combustion and Ignition of Nitramine Propellants: Aspects of Modeling, Simulation, and Analysis (E S Kim & V Yang)Burning-Rate Models and Their Successors, A Personal Perspective (M S Miller)Ideas to Expand Thinking About New Energetic Materials (J Bottaro) Readership: Researchers studying fast chemical reactions and materials behavior under extreme conditions. Experts and beginners in energetic decomposition, combustion and detonation research. Keywords:Energetic Materials;Combustion;Thermal Decomposition;Combustion Model;Materials Design;Flames;Explosive;Propellant;Computational Chemistry;DetonationKey Features:Summarizes the known knowns (the most important recent work) and lists the known unknowns (what remains to be investigated)Provides expert commentary on the complex behavior of materialsReviews:“This book nicely covers the application of many experimental and theoretical tools to study the difficult problem of ignition and combustion of many traditional energetic materials. It could be a valuable resource to the researchers in the field.”Journal of the American Chemical Society '

This volume provides an overview of current research and recent advances in the area of energetic materials, focusing on decomposition, crystal and molecular properties. The contents and format reflect the fact that theory, experiment and computation are closely linked in this field. Since chemical decomposition is of fundamental importance in energetic performance, this volume begins with a survey of the decomposition processes of a variety of energetic compounds. This is followed by detailed studies of certain compounds and specific mechanisms, such as nitro/aci-nitro tautomerism. Chapter 6 covers the transition from decomposition to crystal properties, with molecular dynamics being the primary analytical tool. The next several chapters deal with different aspects of the crystalline state, again moving from the general to particular. There is also a discussion of methods for computing gas, liquid and solid phase heats of formation. Finally, the last portion of this volume looks at the potential of high-nitrogen molecules as energetic systems; this has been of considerable interest in recent years.Overall, this volume illustrates the progress that has been made in the field of energetic materials and some of the areas of current activity. It also indicates the challenges involved in characterizing and understanding the properties and behaviour of these compounds. The work is a unique state-of-the-art treatment of the subject, written by pre-eminent researchers in the field. - Overall emphasis is on theory and computation, presented in the context of relevant experimental work- Presents a unique state-of-the-art treatment of the subject- Contributors are preeminent researchers in the field

The 4th revised edition expands on the basic chemistry of high energy materials of the precious editions and examines new research developments, including hydrodynamics and ionic liquids. Applications in military and civil fields are discussed. This work is of interest to advanced students in chemistry, materials science and engineering, as well as to all those working in defense technology.