Polymeric Nitrogen: The Ultimate, Green High Performing Energetic Material

Abstract

High-energy-high-density materials that offer increased stability, vulnerability, and are environmentally safe are being aggressively pursued to meet the requirements of the DoD Joint Visions and Future Force. It was proposed nearly two decades ago, polymeric nitrogen would exceed all of these requirements, with energy release nearly five times that any conventional energetic material in use today, In this paper, we describe an experiment in which a meta-stable polymeric form of nitrogen has been synthesized under high-pressure using sodium azide as the starting material. Recent characterization and ideas for future work are discussed.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 2006
Accession Number
ADA481864

Entities

People

  • Betsy M. Rice
  • Jennifer A. Ciezak

Organizations

  • United States Army Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Azides
  • Crystal Structure
  • Diffraction
  • Energetic Materials
  • Energy
  • High Energy
  • High Pressure
  • Materials
  • Nitrogen
  • Phase Transformations
  • Raman Spectra
  • Sodium
  • Sodium Azides
  • Sodium Compounds
  • Spectra
  • Spectroscopy
  • X-Ray Diffraction

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