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CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL
Volume 20, Issue 23, Pages 6909-6914Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/chem.201402704
Keywords
hypergolic fuels; ignition delay; ionic liquids; propellants; green chemistry
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- ONR [N00014-12-1-0536]
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In propellant systems, the most common bipropellants are composed of two chemicals, a fuel (or reducer) and an oxidizer. Currently, the choices for propellant fuels rely mainly on hydrazine and its methylated derivatives, even though they are extremely toxic, highly volatile, sensitive to adiabatic compression (risk of detonation), and, therefore, difficult to handle. With this background, the search for alternative green propellant fuels has been an urgent goal of space science. In this study, a new family of cyanoborohydride-based ionic liquids (ILs) with properties and performances comparable to hydrazine derivatives were designed and synthesized. These new ILs as bipropellant fuels, have some unique advantages including negligible vapor pressure, ultra-short ignition delay (ID) time, and reduced synthetic and storage costs, thereby showing great application potential as environmentally friendly fuels in bipropellant formulations.
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