Journal
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
Volume 4, Issue 12, Pages 6432-6435Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/am3021125
Keywords
electrospinning; nanoaluminum; nanothermite; energetic materials; nitrocellulose; propellant; nanofiber; combustion
Funding
- Defense Threat Reduction Agency
- Army Research Office
- Maryland Nanocenter and its NispLab
- NSF as a MRSEC Shared Experimental Facility
- China Scholarship Council
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In this work, we present a first time fabrication of thermite-based nanofiber mats with a nitrocellulose composite energetic binder to create a new class of energetic ID nanocomposite. The as prepared thermite based nanofibrous mats were characterized and tested for their burning behavior, and compared with the pure nitrocellulose and nanoaluminum incorporated nanofibers for their combustion performances. Thermite-based nanofibers show enhanced burning rates in combustion tests, which correlate to the mass loading of nanothermite relative to binder in nanofibers. The electrospinning method demonstrates the possibility of avoiding some of the problems associated with melt casting nanometalized propellants.
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