Nature Communications (Aug 2017)

A promising high-energy-density material

  • Wenquan Zhang,
  • Jiaheng Zhang,
  • Mucong Deng,
  • Xiujuan Qi,
  • Fude Nie,
  • Qinghua Zhang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00286-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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High energy density materials are of interest, but density is the limiting factor for many organic compounds. Here the authors show the formation of a high density energetic compound from a two-step reaction between commercially available compounds that exhibit good heat thermal stability and detonation properties.