Abstract
The applications of nano-metal powders, with high reaction activity and combustion heat, are a crucial approach to increase the performance of explosives and propellants products. This article reviewed the latest improvement of nano-metal powders to propellants, condensed explosives, fuel-air explosives and thermites, and summarized a few methods to modify nano-metal powders, such as nano-metal/polymer compounding, nano-metal/carbon compounding, surface coating with small molecular agents, surface inarching with macromolecule polymer, gas phase depositing, and shape modifying of particles. The important directions of nano-metal powders, are nano-boron, nano-zirconium and composite nano-aluminium.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 232-239 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | Hanneng Cailiao/Chinese Journal of Energetic Materials |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Apr 2011 |
Keywords
- Explosive and propellant
- Military chemistry
- Nano-metal powder
- Surface modification
- Thermite