Advances in Energy Materials: New Composites and Techniques for Future Energy Applications by
This new volume focuses on materials used for energy generation and includes a wide spectrum of applications to solve alternative energy issues. The book reviews the state-of-the-art issues in global energy problems and reports on advanced methods of preparation of nanoscale energy materials with explanations of the structure and properties. It highlights current developments in the energy sector from the materials angle along with new techniques. Topics in Advances in Energy Materials: New Composites and Techniques for Future Energy Applications include polymer nanocomposites with smart behavior and their applicability of in energy applications; magnetorheological and electrorheological properties of smart polymer systems and their energy-related applications; metal-organic frameworks-emerging porous materials for energy applications; applications of carbon nanotubes in energy harvesting and storage; new developments in piezoelectric materials; and much more.
Chemistry of High-Energy Materials by
Chemistry of High-Energy Materials continues in this new and revised 6th edition to provide fundamental scientifi c insights into primary and secondary explosives, propellants, rocket fuels and pyrotechnics. It expands with new research developments, including new melt casts, reactive structure materials, a computational study on the detonation velocity of mixtures of solid explosives with non-explosive liquids, calculation of craters after explosions. This work is of interest to advanced students in chemistry, materials science and engineering, as well as to all those working in military and defense technology.
Emerging Materials for Energy and Sensing Applications by
The proposed book explores the latest advancements in materials science for energy generation, storage, and sensing technology. It covers a diverse range of topics including nanomaterials, thin film solar cells; emerging materials based solar cells, quantum dots, gas sensors, thermoelectric, photodetectors, etc. This book stands out by highlighting the applied applications of emerging materials, making it an invaluable resource for researchers, engineers, and students looking to stay up-to-date in this rapidly evolving field. With its focus on cutting-edge materials and their potential to develop energy harnessing and information gathering, it provides a deep insight into the exciting world of innovative materials.
Energetic Materials by
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.
Energetic Materials Encyclopedia by
The Energetic Materials Encyclopedia is a compendium of pure energetic materials (i.e., not formulations) which summarizes the most important parameters of these compounds. The impact, friction and electrostatic discharge (ESD) sensitivity parameters are reported. Thermal parameters such as the melting points and decomposition temperatures are also given together with the thermodynamic enthalpies of formation. The density values that govern the detonation performance are given for the theoretical maximum density (TMD) and, where appropriate, also for lower densities. The most important performance parameters such as the detonation pressure, the detonation velocity as well as the temperature of explosion and the heat of explosion are also stated.
Energy Materials: Structure, Properties and Applications by
This book presents the latest progress in energy materials, energy storage, batteries, and supercapacitors. The contents include topics such as fundamentals of energy materials, photovoltaic materials and devices, electrochemical energy conversion and storage, and lighting and light-emitting diodes. Chapters include experimental approaches to device fabrication, photovoltaics and supercapacitors applications, etc. It also discusses energy materials' characterization, preparation methods, and performance testing techniques. The book provides ideas on the design and development of nanoscale devices and covers various applications of nanomaterials. This book is useful for researchers and professionals working in the fields of materials science.
Essentials of Chemical Reaction Engineering by
This book covers mole balances, conversion and reactor sizing, rate laws and stoichiometry, isothermal reactor design, rate data collection/analysis, multiple reactions, reaction mechanisms, pathways, bioreactions and bioreactors, catalysis, catalytic reactors, nonisothermal reactor designs, and more. Its multiple improvements include a new discussion of activation energy, molecular simulation, and stochastic modeling, and a significantly revamped chapter on heat effects in chemical reactors.
Innovative Energetic Materials: Properties, Combustion Performance and Application by
This book focuses on the combustion performance and application of innovative energetic materials for solid and hybrid space rocket propulsion. It provides a comprehensive overview of advanced technologies in the field of innovative energetic materials and combustion performance, introduces methods of modeling and diagnosing the aggregation/agglomeration of active energetic metal materials in solid propellants, and investigates the potential applications of innovative energetic materials in solid and hybrid propulsion. In addition, it also provides step-by-step solutions for sample problems to help readers gain a good understanding of combustion performance and potential applications of innovative energetic materials in space propulsion. This book serves as an excellent resource for researchers and engineers in the field of propellants, explosives, and pyrotechnics.
Intrinsic Structures and Properties of Energetic Materials by
This book highlights the intrinsic structures of all kinds of energetic compounds and some structure-property relationships therein. Energetic materials are a class of energy materials that can transiently release a large amount of gases and heat by self-redox after stimulated and usually refer to explosives, propellants and pyrotechnics.
Lithium-ion Batteries : Thin Film for Energy Materials and Devices by
The book "Lithium-ion Batteries - Thin Film for Energy Materials and Devices" provides recent research and trends for thin film materials relevant to energy utilization. The book has seven chapters with high quality content covering general aspects of the fabrication method for cathode, anode, and solid electrolyte materials and their thin films. All the chapters have been written by experts from different backgrounds, and the book is the result of collaborations between all contributing authors who agreed to share their research expertise and technological visions for the future. We hope this book will significantly stimulate readers to develop new devices
Materials Informatics III: Polymers, Solvents and Energetic Materials by
This contributed volume focuses on the application of machine learning and cheminformatics in predictive modeling for organic materials, polymers, solvents, and energetic materials. It provides an in-depth look at how machine learning is utilized to predict key properties of polymers, deep eutectic solvents, and ionic liquids, as well as to improve safety and performance in the study of energetic and reactive materials. With chapters covering polymer informatics, quantitative structure–property relationship (QSPR) modeling, and computational approaches, the book serves as a comprehensive resource for researchers applying predictive modeling techniques to advance materials science and improve material safety and performance.
Military Pyrotechnics by
This book covers military pyrotechnics characteristics, sensitivity, combustion, performance parameters, ingredients and their behaviour, various pyrotechnic compositions and their manufacturing methods, filling, pressing and assembly of ammunition and so forth. Divided into two broader sections, namely military pyrotechnic compositions and military pyrotechnic ammunitions and devices, it provides full spectrum of military pyrotechnics and a guide for all personnel involved with management of military pyrotechnic ammunitions and devices in design, production, inspection, training, and use.
Nano and Micro-Scale Energetic Materials by
Most explosives and propellants currently use a small number of ingredients, such as TNT and nitrocellulose. In comparison to conventional materials, nano- and micro-scale energetic materials exhibit superior burning characteristics and much higher energy densities and explosive yields. Nano and Micro-scale Energetic Materials: Propellants and Explosives provides a timely overview of innovative nano-scale energetic materials (nEMs) and microscale energetic materials technology
Nitrogen-Rich Polycyclic-Based Energetic Materials by
This book describes the design, synthesis, performance and practical application of energetic materials. The book consists of thirteen chapters demonstrating the design routes of nitrogen-rich polycyclic-based energetic materials that are bicyclic, tricyclic and tetracyclic-based. It presents the synthesis of the energetic backbone, the construction of linkage and the introduction of energetic units, which could have a positive impact on the chemistry of not only on high-energy-density materials but also in other fields. The book also provides detailed analysis of the experimental methods discussed. Work in this area will benefit from the combine expertise from organic, inorganic and physical chemistry as well as other connected disciplines. As such this book has wide appeal and will help in increasing fundamental knowledge of nitrogen-rich heterocycles to eventually allow for this knowledge to be transferred into industrial applications.
Oxygen-Carrier-Aided Combustion Technology for Solid-Fuel Conversion in Fluidized Bed by
This open access book surveys the development of OCAC technology in the last decade for solid fuel conversion in fluidized beds. The scientific concerns, including combustion and emission characteristics, ash-related problems, OC aging, and so on, are summarized and analyzed. Beyond this, new concepts like OCAC with Oxy-PFBC, OCAC coupled with staged fuel conversion, OCAC in rotatory kilns and multi-functional OCAC are proposed, so as to promote the applications of OCAC to various fields in the future. Moreover, this book also outlines the perspectives for future research and development of OCAC. As an emerging technology, extensive studies and investigations are still necessary to fill in the gap from the fundamental understanding of the technology to its industrial demonstrations. Nevertheless, we believe that this book provides novel insights for the readership of energy and combustion and stimulate meaningful follow-on research on OCAC technology.
The Properties of Energetic Materials by
For a chemist who is concerned with the synthesis of new energetic compounds, it is essential to be able to assess physical and thermodynamic properties, as well as the sensitivity, of possible new energetic compounds before synthesis is attempted. Various approaches have been developed to predict important aspects of the physical and thermodynamic properties of energetic materials including (but not limited to): crystal density, heat of formation, melting point, enthalpy of fusion and enthalpy of sublimation of an organic energetic compound. Since an organic energetic material consists of metastable molecules capable of undergoing very rapid and highly exothermic reactions, many methods have been developed to estimate the sensitivity of an energetic compound with respect to detonationcausing external stimuli such as heat, friction, impact, shock and electrostatic discharge. This book introduces these methods and demonstrates those methods which can be easily applied
Transport of Energetic Electrons in Solids by
This book describes, as simply as possible, the mechanisms of scattering (both elastic and inelastic) of electrons with solid targets (electron-atom, electron-plasmon, and electron-phonon interactions). It also presents the main strategies of the Monte Carlo method, as well as numerous comparisons between simulation results and the experimental data available in the literature. Furthermore it provides readers with all the information they need in order to write their own Monte Carlo code and to compare the obtained results with the many numerical and experimental examples presented throughout the book.