Energetic Materials

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. High Performance, Low Sensitivity: The Impossible (or Possible) Dream?

   • Peter Politzer, Jane S. Murray

   Pages 1-22

3. Recent Advances in Gun Propellant Development: From Molecules to Materials

   • Eugene Rozumov

   Pages 23-65

4. How to Use QSPR Models to Help the Design and the Safety of Energetic Materials

   • Guillaume Fayet, Patricia Rotureau

   Pages 67-90

5. Energetic Polymers: Synthesis and Applications

   • Alexander J. Paraskos

   Pages 91-134

6. Pyrophoric Nanomaterials

   • Chris Haines, Lauren Morris, Zhaohua Luan, Zac Doorenbos

   Pages 135-170

7. The Relationship Between Flame Structure and Burning Rate for Ammonium Perchlorate Composite Propellants

   • Sarah Isert, Steven F. Son

   Pages 171-211

8. PAFRAG Modeling and Experimentation Methodology for Assessing Lethality and Safe Separation Distances of Explosive Fragmentation Ammunitions

   • Vladimir M. Gold

   Pages 213-241

9. Grain-Scale Simulation of Shock Initiation in Composite High Explosives

   • Ryan A. Austin, H. Keo Springer, Laurence E. Fried

   Pages 243-270

10. Computational Modeling for Fate, Transport and Evolution of Energetic Metal Nanoparticles Grown via Aerosol Route

    • Dibyendu Mukherjee, Seyyed Ali Davari

    Pages 271-341

11. Physical Properties of Select Explosive Components for Assessing Their Fate and Transport in the Environment

    • Veera M. Boddu, Carmen Costales-Nieves, Reddy Damavarapu, Dabir S. Viswanath, Manoj K. Shukla

    Pages 343-371

12. High Explosives and Propellants Energetics: Their Dissolution and Fate in Soils

    • Katerina Dontsova, Susan Taylor

    Pages 373-406

13. Insensitive Munitions Formulations: Their Dissolution and Fate in Soils

    • Susan Taylor, Katerina Dontsova, Marianne Walsh

    Pages 407-443

14. Toxicity and Bioaccumulation of Munitions Constituents in Aquatic and Terrestrial Organisms

    • Guilherme R. Lotufo

    Pages 445-479

15. Back Matter

    Pages 481-482

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This book offers a comprehensive account of energetic materials, including their synthesis, computational modeling, applications, associated degradation mechanisms, environmental consequences and fate and transport. This multi-author contributed volume describes how armed forces around the world are moving their attention from legacy explosive compounds, which are heat and shock sensitive (thus posing greater challenges in terms of handling and storage), to the insensitive munitions compounds/formulations such as insensitive munitions explosive (IMX) and the Picatinny Arsenal Explosive (PAX) series of compounds. The description of energetic materials focuses on explosives, pyrotechnic compositions, and propellants. The contributors go on to explain how modern generation energetic compounds must be insensitive to shock and heat but at the same time yield more energy upon explosion. Nanoinspired and/or co-crystallized energetic materials offer another route to generate next-generation energetic materials, and this authoritative book bridges a large gap in the literature by providing a comprehensive analysis of these compounds. Additionally, it includes a valuable overview of energetic materials, a detailed discussion of recent advances on future energetic compounds, nanotechnology in energetic materials, environmental contamination and toxicity, assessment of munitions lethality, the application quantitative structure–activity relationship (QSAR) in design of energetics and the fate and transport of munition compounds in the environment.

• Energetic Materials
• Explosives
• Pyrotechnic Compositions
• Propellant
• Explosive Compounds
• Insensitive Munitions Compounds
• Insensitive Munitions Formulations
• Explosives Modeling
• Explosives Fate
• Explosives Environment
• Explosive Compounds Modeling
• Explosives Applications
• Explosives Synthesis
• Co-crystallized Energetic Materials
• Nano Energetic Materials
• Remediation Technologies
• QSAR Energetic Materials
• QSAR Energetic Compounds

• US Army Engineer Research and Development Center, Vicksburg, USA

  Manoj K. Shukla, Jeffery A. Steevens

• US Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Peoria, USA

  Veera M. Boddu

• US Army Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center, Picatinny, USA

  Reddy Damavarapu

• Jackson State University, Jackson, USA

  Jerzy Leszczynski

Manoj Shukla is Computational Chemistry Team Leader at the Environmental Laboratory, US Army Engineer Research and Development Center, Vicksburg, MS, USA.

Veera M. Boddu is the Research Leader of the Plant Polymer Research Unit (PPL) at the National Center for Agriculture Utilization Research (NCAUR), Agriculture Research Service, US Department of Agriculture, ARS/USDA, 1815 N. University St., Peoria, IL  61604, USA

Jeffery Steevens is a Research Toxicologist at the U.S. Geological Survey, Columbia Environmental Research Center, Columbia, MO, USA.

Damavarapu Reddy is Research Chemist at the U.S. Army Armament Research, Development, and Engineering Center, Picatinny, NJ, USA.

Jerzy Leszczynski is a Professor of Chemistry and President's Distinguished Fellow at the Jackson State University, Jackson, MS, USA. 

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