Overviews of Recent Research on Energetic Materials

' Few books cover experimental and theoretical methods to characterize decomposition, combustion and detonation of energetic materials. This volume, by internationally known and major contributors to the field, is unique because it summarizes the most important recent work, what we know with confidence, and what main areas remain to be investigated. Most chapters comprise summaries of work spanning decades and contain expert commentary available nowhere else. Although energetic materials are its focus, this book provides a guide to modern methods for investigations of condensed and gas-phase reactions. Although these energetic reactions are complex and difficult to study, the work discussed here provides readers with a substantial understanding of the behavior of materials now in use, and a predictive capability for the development of new materials based on target properties. Contents:Connecting Molecular Properties to Decomposition, Combustion and Explosion Trends (T B Brill)Thermal Decomposition Processes of Energetic Materials in the Condensed Phase at Low and Moderate Temperatures (R Behrens)Study of Energetic Material Combustion Chemistry by Probing Mass Spectrometry and Modeling of Flames (O P Korobeinichev)Optical Spectroscopic Measurements of Energetic Material Flame Structure (T Parr & D Hanson-Parr)Transient Gas-Phase Intermediates in the Decomposition of Energetic Materials (P J Dagdigian)Role of Excited Electronic States in the Decomposition of Energetic Materials (E R Bernstein)Gas-Phase Kinetics for Propellant Combustion Modeling: Requirements and Experiments (W R Anderson & A Fontijn)Gas-Phase Decomposition of Energetic Molecules (D L Thompson)Modeling the Reactions of Energetic Materials in the Condensed Phase (L E Fried et al.)Multi-Phonon Up-Pumping in Energetic Materials (D D Dlott)Applications of Theoretical Chemistry in Assessing Energetic Materials for Performance or Sensitivity (B M Rice)Combustion and Ignition of Nitramine Propellants: Aspects of Modeling, Simulation, and Analysis (E S Kim & V Yang)Burning-Rate Models and Their Successors, A Personal Perspective (M S Miller)Ideas to Expand Thinking About New Energetic Materials (J Bottaro) Readership: Researchers studying fast chemical reactions and materials behavior under extreme conditions. Experts and beginners in energetic decomposition, combustion and detonation research. Keywords:Energetic Materials;Combustion;Thermal Decomposition;Combustion Model;Materials Design;Flames;Explosive;Propellant;Computational Chemistry;DetonationKey Features:Summarizes the known knowns (the most important recent work) and lists the known unknowns (what remains to be investigated)Provides expert commentary on the complex behavior of materialsReviews:“This book nicely covers the application of many experimental and theoretical tools to study the difficult problem of ignition and combustion of many traditional energetic materials. It could be a valuable resource to the researchers in the field.”Journal of the American Chemical Society '