Nature Communications (Jun 2018)

Accelerating the discovery of insensitive high-energy-density materials by a materials genome approach

  • Yi Wang,
  • Yuji Liu,
  • Siwei Song,
  • Zhijian Yang,
  • Xiujuan Qi,
  • Kangcai Wang,
  • Yu Liu,
  • Qinghua Zhang,
  • Yong Tian

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04897-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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The synthesis of explosive materials that are stable, highly dense, and have low sensitivity to external stimuli is a challenge. Here, the authors use a genomic approach to accelerate the discovery of insensitive high explosive molecules with good detonation and low sensitivity properties.