Effects of α-Fe2O3 nanoparticles on the thermal behavior and non-isothermal decomposition kinetics of nitrocellulose

Differentiation of stabilized nitrocellulose during artificial aging: Spectroscopy methods coupled with principal component analysis

“…Hence, it can be deduced that these bands represent the effect of artificial aging on the different samples. Thus, the application of PCA supports the above discussion and proves that the accelerated aging primarily influences these chemical functions, confirming the reported mechanism of NC decomposition as well …”

“…Nitrocellulose (NC) is one of the main available nitrate esters . Owing to its outstanding features such as good mechanical strength, toughness, fast drying rate, compatibility with various plasticizers and binders, degradability, flammability, and explosiveness, it is widely employed in several military and civilian applications for many years . NC with low nitrogen content (<12%) is essentially used in the fields of membranes, coating, magnetic filtration, and printing, whereas NC with high nitrogen content (>12%) has received applications in smokeless powders, solid propellants, and gas generator formulations .…”

Unravelling the Effect of Anthraquinone Metal Salts as Wide-range Plateau Catalysts to Enhance the Combustion Properties of Solid Propellants

“…These results confirmed that these compounds are better than many other reported nano-combustion catalysts in the catalyzing the decomposition of NC. Previously it was shown that the nanoFe 2 O 3 was not able to decrease reduce the decomposition temperature of NC [38]. However, of the several compounds studied here, DHDNEPb decreased the thermal degradation peak temperature of the NC to the greatest extent (around 4.1 °C), while TOCKPb increased the decomposition heat of NC at the highest level (around 840 J/g higher than the decomposition heat of NC).…”

Compatibility and thermal decomposition mechanism of nitrocellulose/Cr2O3 nanoparticles studied using DSC and TG-FTIR

“…2 Several studies have demonstrated that by adding burning catalysts, the oxidizer decomposition can be signicantly accelerated and the burning rate of the propellant can be enhanced. 3 In recent years, nanoscale metal oxides have exhibited high catalytic activity due to their large surface area, high mobility of their surface atoms, small particle size, and varied lattice defects, which have drawn extensive attention in various elds such as in photocatalysis, 4 electrochemistry, 5 solid-oxide fuel cells, 6 magnetic materials, 7 etc. 8 As a common transition metal oxide in nature, Cr 2 O 3 is environmentally compatible, low-cost, less toxic, and naturally abundant and exhibits good catalytic activity; moreover, it has been widely applied as a burning catalyst.…”