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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY A
Volume 122, Issue 16, Pages 3971-3979Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.8b01256
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Hexanitrohexaazaisowurtzitane (CL-20) has a high detonation velocity and pressure, but its sensitivity is also high, which somewhat limits its applications. Therefore, it is important to understand the mechanism and characteristics of thermal decomposition of CL-20. In this study, a epsilon-CL-20 supercell was constructed and ReaxFF-lg reactive molecular dynamics simulations were performed to investigate thermal decomposition of epsilon-CL-20 at various temperatures (2000, 2500, 2750, 3000, 3250, and 3500 K). The mechanism of thermal decomposition of CL-20 was analyzed from the aspects of potential energy evolution, the primary reactions, and the intermediate and final product species. The effect of temperature on thermal decomposition of CL-20 is also discussed. The initial reaction path of thermal decomposition of CL-20 is N-NO2 cleavage to form NO2, followed by C-N cleavage, leading to the destruction of the cage structure. A small number of clusters appear in the early reactions and disappear at the end of the reactions. The initial reaction path of CL-20 decomposition is the same at different temperatures. However, as the temperature increases, the decomposition rate of CL-20 increases and the cage structure is destroyed earlier. The temperature greatly affects the rate constants of H2O and N-2, but it has little effect on the rate constants of CO2 and H-2.
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