Issue 22, 2012
From the journal:

Journal of Materials Chemistry

Ionic liquid solubilized boranes as hypergolic fluids†

Haixiang Gao*a  and  Jean'ne M. Shreeve*b  

* Corresponding authors

a Department of Applied Chemistry, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
E-mail: hxgao@cau.edu.cn
Fax: +86 10-62733830
Tel: +86 10-62731991

b Department of Chemistry, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID 83844-2343, USA
E-mail: jshreeve@uidaho.edu
Fax: +1 208 885 9146
Tel: +1 208 885-6215

Abstract

Borane compounds which are hydrogen storage materials are hypergolic with white fuming nitric acid as oxidizer. When dissolved in ionic liquids, the borane solutions exhibit ignition delay times which are superior to any known hypergolic ionic liquids. These borane–ionic liquid solutions appear to be the brightest hope so far to replace hydrazine and its derivatives as fuels in hypergolic propellant systems.

Graphical abstract: Ionic liquid solubilized boranes as hypergolic fluids

About
Cited by
Related
Download options Please wait...

Supplementary files

Article information

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C2JM31627G
Article type
Communication
Submitted
15 Mar 2012
Accepted
30 Apr 2012
First published
30 Apr 2012

J. Mater. Chem., 2012,22, 11022-11024

Permissions

Request permissions

Ionic liquid solubilized boranes as hypergolic fluids

H. Gao and J. M. Shreeve, J. Mater. Chem., 2012, 22, 11022 DOI: 10.1039/C2JM31627G

To request permission to reproduce material from this article, please go to the Copyright Clearance Center request page.

If you are an author contributing to an RSC publication, you do not need to request permission provided correct acknowledgement is given.

If you are the author of this article, you do not need to request permission to reproduce figures and diagrams provided correct acknowledgement is given. If you want to reproduce the whole article in a third-party publication (excluding your thesis/dissertation for which permission is not required) please go to the Copyright Clearance Center request page.

Read more about how to correctly acknowledge RSC content.

Spotlight

Advertisements