Reactive multilayers fabricated by vapor deposition: A critical review

DP Adams - Thin Solid Films, 2015 - Elsevier
Reactive multilayer thin films are a class of energetic materials that continue to attract
attention for use in joining applications and as igniters. Generally composed of two …

Nanostructured energetic composites: synthesis, ignition/combustion modeling, and applications

X Zhou, M Torabi, J Lu, R Shen… - ACS applied materials & …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Nanotechnology has stimulated revolutionary advances in many scientific and industrial
fields, particularly in energetic materials. Powder mixing is the simplest and most traditional …

Exothermic formation reactions as local heat sources

SQ Arlington, GM Fritz, TP Weihs - Annual Review of Materials …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
This review focuses on the properties of reactive materials (RMs) that enable exothermic
formation reactions and their application as local heat sources. We examine how the heat …

Influence of Al/CuO reactive multilayer films additives on exploding foil initiator

X Zhou, R Shen, Y Ye, P Zhu, Y Hu, L Wu - Journal of Applied Physics, 2011 - pubs.aip.org
An investigation on the influence of Al/CuO reactive multilayer films (RMFs) additives on
exploding foil initiator was performed in this paper. Cu film and Cu/Al/CuO RMFs were …

Highly exothermic and superhydrophobic Mg/fluorocarbon core/shell nanoenergetic arrays

X Zhou, D Xu, G Yang, Q Zhang, J Shen… - … applied materials & …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Mg/fluorocarbon core/shell nanoenergetic arrays are prepared onto silicon substrate, with
Mg nanorods as the core and fluorocarbon as the shell. Mg nanorods are deposited by the …

Exploring the reaction mechanism in self-propagating Al/Ni multilayers by adding inert material

MD Grapes, TP Weihs - Combustion and Flame, 2016 - Elsevier
We present a new class of reactive materials termed “inert-mediated reactive
multilayers”(IMRMs) that use inert material to decouple the effects of chemistry and …

Modeling the Pressure Generation in Aluminum‐Based Thermites

V Baijot, L Glavier, JM Ducéré… - Propellants …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The paper proposes a new theoretical model based on local thermodynamic equilibrium
enabling the prediction of gas generation during the reaction of aluminum‐based thermites …

Reactive structural materials consolidated by cold spray: Al–CuO thermite

A Bacciochini, MI Radulescu, M Yandouzi… - Surface and Coatings …, 2013 - Elsevier
The present study deals with the use of the Cold Gas Dynamic Spray (Cold Spray) process
to consolidate reactive materials with low porosity (up to 99.8% of the theoretical maximum …

Fabrication and kinetics study of nano-Al/NiO thermite film by electrophoretic deposition

D Zhang, X Li - The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2015 - ACS Publications
Nano-Al/NiO thermites were successfully prepared as film by electrophoretic deposition
(EPD). For the key issue of this EPD, a mixture solvent of ethanol–acetylacetone (1: 1 in …

Fabrication and performance characterization of Al/Ni multilayer energetic films

C Yang, Y Hu, R Shen, Y Ye, S Wang, T Hua - Applied Physics A, 2014 - Springer
Al/Ni multilayer bridge films, which were composed of alternate Al and Ni layers with bilayer
thicknesses of 50, 100 and 200 nm, were prepared by RF magnetron sputtering. In each …