Molecular Combustion Properties of Nanoscale Aluminum and Its Energetic Composites: A Short Review

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Remarkable progress has been established in the field of nanoenergetic materials (mixture of nanoscale fuel and oxidizer) since the advent of nanotechnology. Combustion of nanoenergetic materials depends on many key factors like synthesis route, equivalence ratio, morphology of constituents, and arrangements and handling of materials. For tailoring and tuning of the combustion properties of nanoenergetics, sound knowledge of the reaction mechanism is needed; in this review article a schematic study on the reaction mechanism is presented. By employing various routes and strategies in synthesizing and nanoengineering of the fuel or/and oxidizer to realize a significant evolution from normal physical mixing of nanopowders to the formulation of core/shell nanostructures, the nanoenergetic materials achieved the best ever combustion properties in terms of combustion reactivity, ignition sensitivity, energy density, etc. Overall, in this article, a critical state-of-the-art review of the existing literatures has been conducted to feature the main developments in the molecular combustion modeling of melting, oxidation, and core-shell reaction/diffusion of nanoaluminum and the molecular modeling of combustion reactivity and ignition sensitivity of nanoenergetic materials.

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Patel, V. K., Joshi, A., Kumar, S., Rathaur, A. S., & Katiyar, J. K. (2021, January 12). Molecular Combustion Properties of Nanoscale Aluminum and Its Energetic Composites: A Short Review. ACS Omega. American Chemical Society. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.0c03387

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