Advanced preparation and processing techniques for high energy fuel AlH3

M Yu, Z Zhu, HP Li, QL Yan - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2021 - Elsevier
As a novel energetic material, aluminum hydride (AlH 3) has attracted much attention
because of its high hydrogen storage capacity and rapid dehydrogenation at low …

Aluminum particle agglomeration characteristics and suppression method during the combustion of aluminum‐based solid propellants: A review

X Liao, J Pei, P **e, Y Hu, J Liu - Propellants, Explosives …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Aluminum is widely used in solid rocket propellants to improve the energy performance of
the propellant. However, during propellant combustion, aluminum particles may …

Controlling the combustion and agglomeration characteristics of solid propellants via new micro-unit composite fuel Al@ AP

L Liu, L Sang, D Gou, Z Wen, G Zhang, P Liu, G He… - Combustion and …, 2023 - Elsevier
New micro-unit composite fuels Al@ AP with different mass ratios of Al and AP are designed,
prepared, and added to solid propellants in place of the original aluminum powder. Through …

Insight into the precise catalytic mechanism of CuO on the decomposition and combustion of core–shell Al@ AP particles

X Zhou, R Xu, H Nie, Q Yan, J Liu, Y Sun - Fuel, 2023 - Elsevier
Burning rate modulation is a crucial but challenging technology for designing solid
propellants. The core–shell structured Al@ AP and Al@ AP/CuO were prepared and their …

Burning rate modulation for composite propellants by interfacial control of Al@ AP with precise catalysis of CuO

L Jie-Yao, Y Su-Lan, W Shixi, T Gen, Y Wenming… - Combustion and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Burning rate modulation is a critical but challenging technology for solid propellants' design.
Great efforts have been made to synthesize and utilize catalysts to modify the pressure …

Thermal decomposition and combustion behavior of the core-shell Al@ AP composite embedded with CuO as a catalyst

JY Lyu, G Xu, H Zhang, W Yang, QL Yan - Fuel, 2024 - Elsevier
Conventional solid propellants suffer from undesirable combustion performance due to the
poor mass and heat transfer between metal fuels and oxidizers, as well as a lack of catalytic …

Control the combustion behavior of solid propellants by using core-shell Al-based composites

W He, JY Lyu, DY Tang, GQ He, PJ Liu, QL Yan - Combustion and Flame, 2020 - Elsevier
Tailoring the combustion performance of propellant plays an important role in solid
propellant design. Herein, we present that interfacial reaction (thermite reaction on Al …

o-Carborane-Based and Atomically Precise Metal Clusters as Hypergolic Materials

QY Wang, J Wang, S Wang, ZY Wang… - Journal of the …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Atomically precise o-carboranealkynyl-protected clusters [Ag14 (C4B10H11) 12 (CH3CN)
2]· 2NO3 (CBA-Ag) and [Cu6Ag8 (C4B10H11) 12Cl] NO3 (CBA-CuAg) have been found to …

Enhancing the ignition and combustion performances of solid propellants incorporating Al particles inside oxidizers

R Xu, M Yu, Z Xue, H Zhang… - ACS Applied Materials & …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The combustion efficiency of Al plays a critical role in the combustion of high-energy
aluminum-based solid propellants. For traditional formulations, the Al powders are …

Enhancing the reaction efficiency and ignition performance of core-shell Al@ HMX composites by precise catalysis of graphene-based carbohydrazide complexes

R Xu, Z Xue, S Yang, J Xu, H Nie, QL Yan - Fuel, 2023 - Elsevier
The incomplete combustion of aluminum in solid propellants leads to a low-level energy
release. As a promising strategy, fuel/oxidizer interfacial control is proved to be effective for …