In this article, we review some recent studies in predicting impact sensitivity for different
classes of energetic crystals based on first-principles band gap. Based on these …

The continued interest in improving the safety of munitions towards unintentional insults has
led to a significant amount of research in the synthesis of new insensitive energetic …

Mechanical and thermal hazards are critical for chemical compounds. Foremost, the design
of novel energetic materials that are stable, insensitive, but have a detonation performance …

Quantum mechanically determined electrostatic potentials for isosurfaces of electron density
of a variety of CHNO explosive molecules are analyzed to identify features that are indicative …

π–π stacking, usually together with the aid of hydrogen bonding (HB), serves as a main
characteristic of low impact, sensitive, highly energetic materials (LSHEMs), which are highly …

The article presents a survey of the development trends in studies of sensitivity (initiation
reactivity) of energetic materials (EMs) over the last nine years, focusing mainly on impact …

The chemistry of energetic materials can be described applying acid‐base reaction
formalism. Addressing the HSAB concept, the number of electrons transferred, ΔN, in an …

A generalized scheme is introduced for predicting impact sensitivity of any explosives by
using artificial neural networks. Experimental values for the impact sensitivity for 291 …

A new approach is described in this work to predict impact sensitivity of a variety of
polynitroaliphatics, polynitroaromatics and the explosives containing N-NO2. This paper …

Energetic materials are a special and important kind of substance. Impact sensitivity, which
refers to the vulnerability to explosion under external stimuli, measures the safety and …