Highly reactive metastable intermixed composites (MICs): preparation and characterization

W He, PJ Liu, GQ He, M Gozin, QL Yan - Advanced Materials, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Highly reactive metastable intermixed composites (MICs) have attracted much attention in
the past decades. The MIC family of materials mainly includes traditional metal‐based …

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 …

Progress in additive manufacturing of energetic materials: Creating the reactive microstructures with high potential of applications

NV Muravyev, KA Monogarov… - Propellants …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The modern “energetic‐on‐a‐chip” trend envisages reducing size and cost while increasing
safety and maintaining the performance of energetic articles. However, the fabrication of …

Revealing the strengthening and toughening mechanisms of Al-CuO composite fabricated via in-situ solid-state reaction

X Rong, D Zhao, C He, C Shi, E Liu, N Zhao - Acta Materialia, 2021 - Elsevier
Due to native deficiency of the interfacial mismatch between Al 2 O 3 and Al-melt, as well as
micron-Al 2 O 3 segregation at matrix grain boundaries (GBs), achieving both high strength …

In-situ Al2O3-Al interface contribution towards the strength-ductility synergy of Al-CuO composite fabricated by solid-state reactive sintering

X Rong, X Zhang, D Zhao, C He, C Shi, E Liu, N Zhao - Scripta Materialia, 2021 - Elsevier
Probing the interface is of great importance for tailoring the mechanical performance of Al
matrix composites (AMCs) to achieve strength-ductility synergy. This work contributes an in …

Reactive structural materials: preparation and characterization

DL Hastings, EL Dreizin - Advanced Engineering Materials, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Reactive structural materials, which can serve both as structural elements as well as a
source of chemical energy released upon initiation have emerged as an important class of …

Highly reactive thermite energetic materials: preparation, characterization, and applications: a review

X Guo, T Liang, ML Islam, X Chen, Z Wang - Molecules, 2023 - mdpi.com
As a promising kind of functional material, highly reactive thermite energetic materials (tEMs)
with outstanding reactive activation can release heat quickly at a high reaction rate after low …

Engineering of Al/CuO reactive multilayer thin films for tunable initiation and actuation

C Rossi - Propellants, Explosives, Pyrotechnics, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Sputter‐deposited Al/CuO multilayers represent the state‐of‐the‐art of energetic
nanomaterials for tunable ignition and actuation because their theoretical energy densities …

The role of MnO2 crystal facets in aluminothermic reaction of MnO2/nAl composite

MA Majeed, J Xu, W Zhang, X Wang, J Wang… - Chemical Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
The available oxygen repositories of metal oxide play vital role in aluminothermic reactions.
The contact surface of an oxidizer to metal fuel (aluminum) in high density energetic …