Issue 45, 2018

Iodocuprate-containing ionic liquids as promoters for green propulsion

Abstract

In this work, we prepared and comprehensively characterized four novel iodocuprate-containing ionic liquids, CuILs 1–4. In addition to their interesting molecular structures and physical properties CuILs exhibited capability to efficiently promote hypergolic reactions between boron-containing [EMIM+][H3BCN] and [MIM]·[BH3] fuels and a highly concentrated H2O2 (95%) oxidizer. The most promising promoter CuIL 3 has the decomposition temperature well above the decomposition temperature of the fuels, was stable in promoter-in-fuel mixtures for weeks and showed ignition delay times down to 14 ms. We believe that further development of our new iodocuprate ionic liquids can lead to promising “green” H2O2-based bipropellant systems for space applications.

Graphical abstract: Iodocuprate-containing ionic liquids as promoters for green propulsion

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
18 Aug 2018
Accepted
17 Oct 2018
First published
17 Oct 2018

J. Mater. Chem. A, 2018,6, 22819-22829

Iodocuprate-containing ionic liquids as promoters for green propulsion

K. Wang, A. K. Chinnam, N. Petrutik, E. P. Komarala, Q. Zhang, Q. Yan, R. Dobrovetsky and M. Gozin, J. Mater. Chem. A, 2018, 6, 22819 DOI: 10.1039/C8TA08042A

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