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- compositions and method of deposing initiatory compositions specifically for filling small devices such as caps, and ignitors.
- Primers for medium and small calibre munitions are typically modest-sized components requiring no more than a few hundred milligrams of primary explosive or other initiating composition. Consequently, filling such components by hand requires significant dexterity. Filling processes involving dry powders are also prone to initiation via electrostatic discharge, which promotes safety concerns with regards to the operator.
- a nanothermite initiatory composition comprising a:
- the repelling of said metal(M)oxide complex and a metal (M′) complex is caused by the charging reagent having the same electrostatic charge or providing steric hindrance.
- the effect will be determined by the choice of the charging reagent.
- the nanothermite may be present in a stoichiometric ratio or fuel-rich ratio of fuel and oxidizer nanopowders.
- the solvent may comprise a binder, in the range of from 0.1 to 16% w/w.
- the binder may be any typically used binder in energetic material compositions.
- the binder may be selected from a non-energetic binder and/or an energetic binder, present in the range of from 0.1% to 16% wt, more preferably in the range of 0.5 to 5% wt.
- the binder may be a mixture of an energetic and non-energetic binder.
- suitable non-energetic binder materials are ethylene-vinyl acetate, esters, ego cellulose acetate, cellulose acetate butyrate, polyurethanes, polyesters, polybutadienes, polyethylenes, polyvinyl acetate and blends and/or copolymers thereof, or fluorinated binders.
- the fluorinated binders may be mono- or per-fluorinated, such as, for example PTFE, Viton etc.
- Suitable energetic binder materials which may be used alongside a non-energetic binder, may be nitrocellulose, polyvinylnitrate, nitroethylene, nitroallyl acetate, nitroethyl acrylate, nitroethylmethacrylate, trinitroethyl acrylate, dinitropropyl acrylate, C-nitropolystyrene and its derivatives, polyurethanes with aliphatic C- and N-nitro groups, polyesters made from dinitrocarboxylic acids and dinitrodiol and homopolymers of 3-10 nitrato-3 methyl oxetane (PolyNIMMO).
- the nanothermite initiatory composition may deposed directly into a device, or deposed to provide a loose composition that can be filled using conventional techniques, such as granules, rods, pellets, etc.
- the device to be filled may be any munition or subsystem, typically this may be a primer cup, initiator, or part of the explosive train.
- the nanothermite suspension may be caused to be evaporated, to provide a powdered nanothermite encapsulated in the binder material.
- the evaporation stage may be afforded in once in a filled device.
- the admixture comprising, for example, nanothermite suspension, binder, adhesive, optinally any curative, may be directly applied to any substrate or device by means of either extrusion, deposition or spray process, e.g. aerosol, nozzle printing or vapour deposition.
- Plasticisers such as non-energetic, energetic plasticisers or a combination therefore may be used.
- the nanothermite solids loading in the suspension may be greater than 10% w/w, preferably of from 10% to 70% w/w, most preferably 30-60% w/w, within the composition.
- the device to be filled may be any munition or subsystem, typically this may be a primer cup, initiator, or part of the explosive train.
- the metal(M)oxide and a metal (M′), may each have an average particle size of less than 1000 nm, preferably less than 500 nm, more preferably less than 100 nm, yet more preferably less than 50 nm.
- the metal oxide(M) may be any oxide of a metal, preferably the metal is selected from a transition metal, Al, In, Sn, Mg, Be, B, and Si or a mixture thereof.
- the transition metal may be selected from Sc, Bi, Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Mo or Z.
- the metal (M′) may be selected from a transition metal, Al, In, Sn, Mg, Be, B, Si or a mixture thereof, provided that the metal and the metal ion in the metal oxide are not selected from the same metal, ie (M) ⁇ (M′).
- the transition metal for the (M′) may be selected from Sc, Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu or Zn.
- Particularly preferred mixtures may be bismuth (III) oxide/aluminium, iron (III) oxide/aluminium, and copper (II) oxide/aluminium, Molybdenum (VI) oxide/aluminium and manganese (III) oxide/aluminium.
- the charging reagent may be selected from any reagent that is capable of forming a stable complex such as a chelate, ligand with the metal M′ and metal (M) oxide such that they repel each other in said suspension.
- the repulsion may be caused by large steric hindrances and/or ionic repulsion.
- the charging reagent may be monodentate, bidentate ligand oligomeric, polymeric, ionic, or polar organic compounds, such as halo, polyethylenimine, phosphate ester, poly(dimethyldiallylammonium chloride), trioxadecanoic acid and acrylate-acrylamide copolymers.
- the suspension may comprise a non-ionic surfactant.
- the non-ionic surfactant may assist to prevent aggregated particles from forming as well as enhancing adsorption on the particle.
- the selection of the non-ionic surfactant may prepare the surface of the metal (M′) and metal(M) oxide particles to accept the charging reagent ligand, such as to facilitate the adsorption of the charging ligand, ie protons, iodide, conjugate systems, or ions on the particles surface.
- a preferred example of a charging reagent may be iodine, acetone and deionized water in a polar organic solvent, with a non-ionic surfactant, such as acetylacetone or ethylene glycol.
- the solvent is preferably an organic solvent, preferably a polar solvent, such as for example an C 1 to C 10 alcohol, such as alkyl, alkenyl, aromatic, straight or branch chained, and mixtures thereof.
- a polar solvent such as for example an C 1 to C 10 alcohol, such as alkyl, alkenyl, aromatic, straight or branch chained, and mixtures thereof.
- the use of large complex ligands may provide steric repulsion, electronic repulsion.
- the surfactant may itself form a chelate or complex bonds with the metal (M′) and metal atom of the metal (M) oxide.
- Examples of the non-ionic surfactants may be acetylacetone, ethylene glycol or similar compounds.
- the device may be initiated by an electrical stimulus, such as an electric spark, potential difference, which requires the use of a conducting composition.
- the nanothermite suspension may be made conducting by the inclusion of conducting particles, such that the composition may comprises a graphitic filler in the range of 1-40% by weight, a graphitic filler greater than 20%, such as in the range of 20 to 40% w/w.
- the graphitic filler had been found to further assist the complexing of the charging reagent and non-ionic surfactant with the metal and metal oxides.
- the Resonant Acoustic Mixing stimulus process may be affected at different frequencies/power to provide homogeneous mixing of the composition.
- Resonant acoustic mixing is far removed from sonification (or ultrasound) techniques.
- Ultrasound employs very high frequencies, typically greater than 20 KHz.
- the resonant acoustic mixing may be caused at a frequency in the range of less than 200 Hz, preferably less than 100 Hz, preferably from 20 Hz to 100 Hz, more preferably in the range of from 50 Hz to 70 Hz, yet more preferably 58 Hz to 60 hz.
- the resonant acoustic mixing occurs at very low frequencies, in the order of tens of hertz, compared to those used in sonification (ultrasound),which is tens of thousands of hertz.
- the resonant acoustic mixing stimulus may apply an acceleration force of up to 100 g.
- Resonant acoustic mixing induces microscale turbulence by propagating acoustic waves of a low frequency throughout a mixture.
- the resonant acoustic mixing system has a lower frequency of acoustic energy and can be more readily applied to larger scale of mixing than ultrasonic agitation.
- the mixing time for typical shear force mixers may be in the order of several hours to ensure homogenous mixing, in resonant acoustic mixing the stimulus may cause the time to be reduced to less than hour, more preferably less than 20 mins or even less than 5 minutes.
- the use of conventional mixing techniques with nanometric scale powders, particularly those in suspension often causes high viscosity suspensions, the use of Resonant Acoustic Mixing is particularly suited to mixing high viscosity suspensions.
- a deposed nanothermite energetic material comprising a
- a method of filling explosive devices with a nanothermite initiatory composition comprising the steps of:
- Nanoparticle suspension Nanothermite (n-Al/Bi2O3) 5.887 39.249 Ethanol 5.414 36.093 Acetylacetone 2.291 15.276 “Charging reagent”: Iodine 0.165 1.099 Acetone 0.233 1.550 Deionised water 0.147 0.981 Ethanol 0.863 5.752 Total: 15.000 100.00
- the above suspension was prepared with a nanothermite loading of 40% w/w. The suspension was substantially devoid of aggregated particulates, the suspension was capable of being deposed onto a substrate and dried.
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Abstract
There is provided a composition and method of deposing an initiatory composition, said composition, comprising a:
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- (i) a nanothermite suspension of a metal(M)oxide and a metal (M′) in a solvent, wherein the average particle size of the metal(M)oxide and a metal (M′) is less than 1000 nm, provided that (M)≠(M′),
- (ii) wherein said nanothermite suspension comprises a charging reagent comprising a reagent capable of forming a stable complex with each of the metal(M)oxide and the metal (M′), to from a metal(M)oxide complex, and a metal (M′) complex that have the same electrostatic charge, such that said metal(M)oxide complex and a metal (M′) complex repel each other in said suspension, wherein the admixture of the binder, nanothermite suspension charging reagent, has been caused to be mixed under Resonant Acoustic Mixing to provide a stable suspension of a nanothermite complex
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- There is provided a composition and method of deposing initiatory compositions, specifically for filling small devices such as caps, and ignitors.
- There is a desire to move away from typical sensitive initiatory compositions, and specifically those that require the use of lead based compositions.
- Primers for medium and small calibre munitions are typically modest-sized components requiring no more than a few hundred milligrams of primary explosive or other initiating composition. Consequently, filling such components by hand requires significant dexterity. Filling processes involving dry powders are also prone to initiation via electrostatic discharge, which promotes safety concerns with regards to the operator.
- According to a first aspect of present invention there is provided a nanothermite initiatory composition, comprising a:
- (i) a nanothermite suspension of a metal(M)oxide and a metal (M′) in a solvent, wherein the average particle size of the metal(M)oxide and a metal (M′) is less than 1000 nm, provided that (M)
- (ii) wherein said nanothermite suspension comprises a charging reagent comprising a reagent capable of forming a stable complex with each of the metal(M)oxide and the metal (M′), to from a metal(M)oxide complex, and a metal (M′) complex, such that said metal(M)oxide complex and said metal (M′) complex repel each other in said suspension,
- wherein the admixture of the binder, nanothermite suspension charging reagent, has been caused to be mixed under Resonant Acoustic Mixing to provide a stable suspension of a nanothermite complex; in a highly preferred arrangement the nanothermite suspension further comprises a non-ionic surfactant.
- The repelling of said metal(M)oxide complex and a metal (M′) complex is caused by the charging reagent having the same electrostatic charge or providing steric hindrance. The effect will be determined by the choice of the charging reagent.
- The nanothermite may be present in a stoichiometric ratio or fuel-rich ratio of fuel and oxidizer nanopowders. Stoichiometric ratio is defined as Equivalence Ratio (ER or ϕ))=1.0. Fuel-rich ratios, for example, may be ER (ϕ))=1.2.
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- In a highly preferred arrangement the solvent may comprise a binder, in the range of from 0.1 to 16% w/w.
- The binder may be any typically used binder in energetic material compositions. The binder may be selected from a non-energetic binder and/or an energetic binder, present in the range of from 0.1% to 16% wt, more preferably in the range of 0.5 to 5% wt.
- The binder may be a mixture of an energetic and non-energetic binder. Examples of suitable non-energetic binder materials are ethylene-vinyl acetate, esters, ego cellulose acetate, cellulose acetate butyrate, polyurethanes, polyesters, polybutadienes, polyethylenes, polyvinyl acetate and blends and/or copolymers thereof, or fluorinated binders. The fluorinated binders may be mono- or per-fluorinated, such as, for example PTFE, Viton etc.
- Examples of suitable energetic binder materials which may be used alongside a non-energetic binder, may be nitrocellulose, polyvinylnitrate, nitroethylene, nitroallyl acetate, nitroethyl acrylate, nitroethylmethacrylate, trinitroethyl acrylate, dinitropropyl acrylate, C-nitropolystyrene and its derivatives, polyurethanes with aliphatic C- and N-nitro groups, polyesters made from dinitrocarboxylic acids and dinitrodiol and homopolymers of 3-10 nitrato-3 methyl oxetane (PolyNIMMO).
- The nanothermite initiatory composition may deposed directly into a device, or deposed to provide a loose composition that can be filled using conventional techniques, such as granules, rods, pellets, etc. The device to be filled may be any munition or subsystem, typically this may be a primer cup, initiator, or part of the explosive train.
- In a preferred arrangement the nanothermite suspension may be caused to be evaporated, to provide a powdered nanothermite encapsulated in the binder material. The evaporation stage may be afforded in once in a filled device.
- The admixture, comprising, for example, nanothermite suspension, binder, adhesive, optinally any curative, may be directly applied to any substrate or device by means of either extrusion, deposition or spray process, e.g. aerosol, nozzle printing or vapour deposition.
- Plasticisers, such as non-energetic, energetic plasticisers or a combination therefore may be used.
- The nanothermite solids loading in the suspension may be greater than 10% w/w, preferably of from 10% to 70% w/w, most preferably 30-60% w/w, within the composition.
- The device to be filled may be any munition or subsystem, typically this may be a primer cup, initiator, or part of the explosive train.
- The metal(M)oxide and a metal (M′), may each have an average particle size of less than 1000 nm, preferably less than 500 nm, more preferably less than 100 nm, yet more preferably less than 50 nm.
- The metal oxide(M) may be any oxide of a metal, preferably the metal is selected from a transition metal, Al, In, Sn, Mg, Be, B, and Si or a mixture thereof. Preferably the transition metal may be selected from Sc, Bi, Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Mo or Z.
- The metal (M′) may be selected from a transition metal, Al, In, Sn, Mg, Be, B, Si or a mixture thereof, provided that the metal and the metal ion in the metal oxide are not selected from the same metal, ie (M)≠(M′). The transition metal for the (M′) may be selected from Sc, Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu or Zn.
- Particularly preferred mixtures may be bismuth (III) oxide/aluminium, iron (III) oxide/aluminium, and copper (II) oxide/aluminium, Molybdenum (VI) oxide/aluminium and manganese (III) oxide/aluminium.
- The charging reagent may be selected from any reagent that is capable of forming a stable complex such as a chelate, ligand with the metal M′ and metal (M) oxide such that they repel each other in said suspension. The repulsion may be caused by large steric hindrances and/or ionic repulsion. The charging reagent may be monodentate, bidentate ligand oligomeric, polymeric, ionic, or polar organic compounds, such as halo, polyethylenimine, phosphate ester, poly(dimethyldiallylammonium chloride), trioxadecanoic acid and acrylate-acrylamide copolymers.
- In a highly preferred arrangement the suspension may comprise a non-ionic surfactant. The non-ionic surfactant may assist to prevent aggregated particles from forming as well as enhancing adsorption on the particle.
- The selection of the non-ionic surfactant may prepare the surface of the metal (M′) and metal(M) oxide particles to accept the charging reagent ligand, such as to facilitate the adsorption of the charging ligand, ie protons, iodide, conjugate systems, or ions on the particles surface.
- A preferred example of a charging reagent may be iodine, acetone and deionized water in a polar organic solvent, with a non-ionic surfactant, such as acetylacetone or ethylene glycol.
- The solvent is preferably an organic solvent, preferably a polar solvent, such as for example an C1 to C10 alcohol, such as alkyl, alkenyl, aromatic, straight or branch chained, and mixtures thereof.
- The use of large complex ligands, may provide steric repulsion, electronic repulsion. The surfactant may itself form a chelate or complex bonds with the metal (M′) and metal atom of the metal (M) oxide. Examples of the non-ionic surfactants may be acetylacetone, ethylene glycol or similar compounds.
- In one arrangement the device may be initiated by an electrical stimulus, such as an electric spark, potential difference, which requires the use of a conducting composition. The nanothermite suspension may be made conducting by the inclusion of conducting particles, such that the composition may comprises a graphitic filler in the range of 1-40% by weight, a graphitic filler greater than 20%, such as in the range of 20 to 40% w/w. The graphitic filler had been found to further assist the complexing of the charging reagent and non-ionic surfactant with the metal and metal oxides.
- The Resonant Acoustic Mixing stimulus process may be affected at different frequencies/power to provide homogeneous mixing of the composition. Resonant acoustic mixing is far removed from sonification (or ultrasound) techniques. Ultrasound employs very high frequencies, typically greater than 20 KHz.
- In a highly preferred arrangement the resonant acoustic mixing may be caused at a frequency in the range of less than 200 Hz, preferably less than 100 Hz, preferably from 20 Hz to 100 Hz, more preferably in the range of from 50 Hz to 70 Hz, yet more preferably 58 Hz to 60 hz. The resonant acoustic mixing occurs at very low frequencies, in the order of tens of hertz, compared to those used in sonification (ultrasound),which is tens of thousands of hertz. Typically the resonant acoustic mixing stimulus may apply an acceleration force of up to 100 g.
- Resonant acoustic mixing induces microscale turbulence by propagating acoustic waves of a low frequency throughout a mixture. The resonant acoustic mixing system has a lower frequency of acoustic energy and can be more readily applied to larger scale of mixing than ultrasonic agitation. The mixing time for typical shear force mixers may be in the order of several hours to ensure homogenous mixing, in resonant acoustic mixing the stimulus may cause the time to be reduced to less than hour, more preferably less than 20 mins or even less than 5 minutes. The use of conventional mixing techniques with nanometric scale powders, particularly those in suspension, often causes high viscosity suspensions, the use of Resonant Acoustic Mixing is particularly suited to mixing high viscosity suspensions.
- According to a further aspect of the invention there is provided a deposed nanothermite energetic material comprising a
- i) a binder,
- ii) a metal(M)oxide and a metal (M′), wherein the average particle size of the metal(M)oxide and a metal (M′) is less than 100 nm,
- wherein said metal (M) and metal (M′) are complexed with a reagent such that said metal(M)oxide in said metal(M) oxide complex, and the metal (M′) in the metal (M′) complex have the same electrostatic charge.
- According to a further aspect of the invention there is provided a method of filling explosive devices with a nanothermite initiatory composition, comprising the steps of:
- forming a nanothermite composition comprising
- (i) a binder, (ii) a thermite suspension of a metal(M)oxide and a metal (M′) in a solvent, wherein the average particle size of the metal(M)oxide and a metal (M′) is less than 1000 nm, provided that M # M′,
- (iii) forming a charging reagent comprising a reagent capable of forming a stable complex with each of the metal(M)oxide and the metal (M′), such that said metal(M) in said metal(M)oxide complex, and the metal(M′) in the metal (M′) complex have the same electrostatic charge or are sterically hindered, such that said metal(M)oxide complex and a metal (M′) complex repel each other,
- forming an admixture of the binder, thermite suspension and charging reagent, causing said admixture to be mixed under Resonant Acoustic Mixing to provide a stable suspension of an admixture of a nanothermite complex,
- (iii) filling the device with the admixture of nanothermite complex.
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TABLE 1 Component (NTS_1) Mass (g) % (W/W) Nanoparticle suspension: Nanothermite (n-Al/Bi2O3) 5.887 39.249 Ethanol 5.414 36.093 Acetylacetone 2.291 15.276 “Charging reagent”: Iodine 0.165 1.099 Acetone 0.233 1.550 Deionised water 0.147 0.981 Ethanol 0.863 5.752 Total: 15.000 100.00
The above suspension was prepared with a nanothermite loading of 40% w/w. The suspension was substantially devoid of aggregated particulates, the suspension was capable of being deposed onto a substrate and dried.
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1. A nanothermite initiatory composition, comprising:
a nanothermite suspension of a metal(M)oxide and a metal (M′) in a solvent, wherein the average particle size of the metal(M)oxide and the metal (M′) is less than 1000 nm, provided that (M)≠(M′);
a charging reagent comprising a reagent capable of forming a stable complex with each of the metal(M)oxide and the metal (M′), to form a metal(M)oxide complex, and a metal (M′) complex, such that the metal(M)oxide complex and the metal (M′) complex repel each other in the suspension;
wherein the nanothermite suspension and charging reagent are mixed to provide a stable suspension of the nanothermite composition.
2. The composition according to claim 1 , wherein the repelling of the metal(M)oxide complex and the metal (M′) complex is caused by the charging reagent having the same electrostatic charge and/or providing steric hindrance therebetween.
3. The composition according to claim 1 , wherein the nanothermite suspension comprises a binder, in the range of from 0.1 to 16% w/w.
4. The composition according to claim 1 , wherein the nanothermite suspension comprises a non-ionic surfactant.
5. The composition according to claim 1 , wherein the composition is deposed in a primer cup, initiator, or explosive train.
6. The composition according to claim 1 , wherein the metal(M)oxide is an oxide of a metal selected from a transition metal, Al, In, Sn, Mg, Be, B, and Si or a mixture thereof.
7. The composition of claim 6 , wherein the transition metal is Sc, Bi, Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Mo or Zn.
8. The composition of claim 1 , wherein the metal (M′) is selected from a transition metal, Al, In, Sn, Mg, Be, B, Si or a mixture thereof.
9. The composition of claim 8 , wherein the transition metal is Sc, Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu or Zn.
10. The composition according to claim 1 , wherein the composition comprises a graphitic filler in the range of 20-40% by weight.
11. The composition according to claim 1 , wherein the solvent is a polar organic solvent.
12. A method of filling explosive devices with a nanothermite initiatory composition, the method comprising:
forming a nanothermite composition comprising
a binder,
a thermite suspension of a metal(M)oxide and a metal (M′) in a solvent, wherein the average particle size of the metal(M)oxide and a metal (M′) is less than 1000 nm, provided that M≠M′, and
(iii) forming a charging reagent comprising a reagent capable of forming a stable complex with each of the metal(M)oxide and the metal (M′), such that the metal(M′) in the metal(M)oxide complex, and the metal(M′) in the metal (M′) complex have the same electrostatic charge or are sterically hindered, such that the metal(M)oxide complex and the metal (M′) complex repel each other; and
causing the composition to be mixed under Resonant Acoustic Mixing to provide a stable suspension of a mixture of a nanothermite complex; and
(iii) filling the device with the admixture of nanothermite complex.
13. The method according to claim 12 , wherein the binder is present, in the range of from 0.1 to 16% w/w.
14. The method according to claim 12 , wherein the thermite suspension comprises a non-ionic surfactant.
15. A deposed nanothermite energetic material comprising:
a binder; and
a metal(M)oxide and a metal (M′), wherein the average particle size of the metal(M)oxide and the metal (M′) is less than100 nm, 100 nm;
wherein the metal(M)oxide and the metal (M′) are complexed with a reagent such that the metal(M)oxide in the metal(M) oxide complex, and the metal (M′) in the metal (M′) complex, have the same electrostatic charge.
16. The deposed nanothermite energetic material according to claim 15 , wherein the composition is deposed in a primer cup, initiator, or explosive train.
17. The deposed nanothermite energetic material according to claim 15 , wherein the metal(M)oxide is an oxide of a metal selected from a transition metal, Al, In, Sn, Mg, Be, B, and Si or a mixture thereof, and wherein the metal (M′) is selected from a transition metal, Al, In, Sn, Mg, Be, B, Si or a mixture thereof.
18. The deposed nanothermite energetic material according to claim 17 , wherein the transition metal of the metal(M)oxide is Sc, Bi, Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Mo or Zn.
19. The deposed nanothermite energetic material according to claim 17 , wherein the transition metal of the metal (M′) is Sc, Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu or Zn.
20. The composition according to claim 1 , wherein the nanothermite suspension and charging reagent are mixed via Resonant Acoustic Mixing to provide the stable suspension of the nanothermite composition.
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