Ionic Liquids and Energetic Materials

Energetic Ionic Liquids

The AMPAC-GaTech Partnership fosters research aimed at opening and developing new avenues and compounds that fit the American Pacific Corporation (AMPAC)’s potential market. Under this umbrella, we are exploring advanced propellants technologies (ionic liquids, energetic polymers), azide chemistry, and applied polymers (agriculture, biomedical). The energetic ionic liquids is one example to ill...

Triazolium-based energetic ionic liquids.

The energetic ionic liquids formed by the 1,2,4-triazolium cation family and dinitramide anion are investigated by ab initio quantum chemistry calculations, to address the following questions: How does substitution at the triazolium ring's nitrogen atoms affect its heat of formation, and its charge delocalization? What kind of ion dimer structures might exist? And, do deprotonation reactions oc...

Ionic Liquids for Advanced Materials

Multidisciplinary research has served as the cornerstone of the first year ILEAD MURI programs leading to working collaborations among scientists and engineers with graduate student exchanges, real-time feedback, and multidisciplinary peer-reviewed publications. The MURI research team is organized according to interdisciplinary and integrative fundamental questions of science and engineering, a...

Ionic Liquids in Photopolymerizable Holographic Materials

Pentazole-based energetic ionic liquids: a computational study.

The structures of protonated pentazole cations (RN5H+), oxygen-containing anions such as N(NO2)2-, NO3-, and ClO4- and the corresponding ion pairs are investigated by ab initio quantum chemistry calculations. The stability of the pentazole cation is explored by examining the decomposition pathways of several monosubstituted cations (RN5H+) to yield N2 and the corresponding azidinium cation. The...