Enhancing the exothermic decomposition of ammonium perchlorate (AP) is of great significance to obtain solid propellants with excellent combustion performance. Herein, we prepared a series of composites for catalyzing the exothermic decomposition of AP by a facile method with different masses of nano copper oxide (n-CuO) dispersed in graphene-nitride carbon (g-C 3 N 4 ) nanosheets. Among them, n-CuO-8/g-C 3 N 4 showed the best catalytic activity, which reduced the high-temperature decomposition (HTD) value by 95.0 °C, and increased the total heat release by 505 J • g À 1 . The n-CuO-12/g-C 3 N 4 also reduced the activation energy (E a ) of the HTD stage by 47.34 kJ • mol À 1 . The catalytic mechanism study suggested that the n-CuO-X/g-C 3 N 4 composites promoted the transition of electrons (e À ) and holes (h + ) from ClO 4À to NH 4 + and inhibited the recombination of e À and h + , which further enhanced the exothermic decomposition of AP. During decomposition, the transformation of N 2 O to NO was significantly inhibited by the n-CuO-X/g-C 3 N 4 composites, thus increasing the integral heat release as evidenced by Real-time thermogravimetry/Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. This study illustrated that n-CuO-X/g-C 3 N 4 composites are catalysts for the efficient decomposition of AP, which further enhance the energy performance of solid propellants.

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