High-pressure studies of insensitive explosives: Nitroguanidine (NQ) and N-guanylurea-dinitramide ( GUDN)

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The aims of this proposal are to explore the high-pressure, high-temperature behaviour of two insensitive energetic materials - Nitroguanidine (NQ) and N-guanylurea-dinitramide (FOX-12 or GUDN). These experiments are expected to identify and structurally characterise new forms of these materials, and offer the potential for the recovery of metastable forms to ambient conditions. These recovered forms may exhibit enhanced properties such as reduced sensitivity or higher density. The studies will also provide structural information as a function of pressure with a particular focus on intermolecular interactions involving H-atoms. Such interactions are important in the intermolecular transfer of energy and have implications for the shock sensitivity of these materials. Phase transitions observed under these extreme conditions also have important implications for modelling performance.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.42581820
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/42581820
Provenance
Creator Professor Colin Pulham; Mr Paul Coster; Dr Bill Marshall; Mr Craig Henderson
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2017
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Chemistry; Natural Sciences; Physics
Temporal Coverage Begin 2013-11-21T00:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2014-02-28T16:27:07Z