OVERVIEWS OF RECENT RESEARCH
ON ENERGETIC MATERIALS

Edited by:
Robert W Shaw (Army Research Office, USA)
Thomas B Brill (University of Delaware, USA)
Donald L Thompson (University of Missouri, USA)

(World Scientific Publishing Company, August 2005)

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)