Energetic materials, including explosives, pyrotechnics, and propellants, are widely used in
mining, demolition, automobile airbags, fireworks, ordnance, and space technology …

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

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 …

The demand for energy sources that are compact, lightweight and powerful has significantly
increased in recent years. Traditional chemical batteries which are highly developed are …

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

Over past few years, there has been increased interest in the development of metastable
intermixed composites (MICs). As typical high energetic materials, MICs find important …

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 …

The structural optimization of the nano-sized composite energetic materials has received
worldwide attention. Here, a novel super encapsulating structured polyvinylidene fluoride …

Metastable intermolecular composites (MICs), also called nanothermites, are attracting wide
attention mainly due to the increased interfacial contact area of the fuels and oxidants …

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 …