Nanoscale metal oxide materials have been attracting much attention because of their
unique size-and dimensionality-dependent physical and chemical properties as well as …

In recent years, research in the field of carbon nanomaterials (CNMs), such as fullerenes,
expanded graphite (EG), carbon nanotubes (CNTs), graphene, and graphene oxide (GO) …

Recent developments in materials processing and characterization resulted in the discovery
of a new type of reactive materials containing nanoscaled metal components. The well …

Metal combustion has received renewed interest largely as a result of the ability to produce
and characterize metallic nanoparticles. Much of the highly desirable traits of nanosized …

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 …

Nanotechnology has stimulated revolutionary advances in many scientific and industrial
fields, particularly in energetic materials. Powder mixing is the simplest and most traditional …

New energetic materials (EMs) are the key to great advances in microscale energy-
demanding systems as actuation part, igniter, propulsion unit, and power. Nanoscale EMs …

It is generally agreed that a key parameter to high reactivity in nanothermites is intimate
interfacial contact between fuel and oxidizer. Various approaches have been employed to …

Multilayered Al/CuO thermite was deposited by a dc reactive magnetron sputtering method.
Pure Al and Cu targets were used in argon–oxygen gas mixture plasma and with an oxygen …

The current status of research in the field of combustion of heterogeneous nanostructural
systems is reviewed. Four classes of reactive media are considered: nanothermites, sol …