Photoactive energetic materials
Abstract
Energetic materials that are photoactive or believed to be photoactive may include a conventional explosive (e.g. PETN, nitroglycerine) derivatized with an energetic UV-absorbing and/or VIS-absorbing chromophore such as 1,2,4,5-tetrazine or 1,3,5-triazine. Absorption of laser light having a suitably chosen wavelength may result in photodissociation, decomposition, and explosive release of energy. These materials may be used as ligands to form complexes. Coordination compounds include such complexes with counterions. Some having the formula M(L).sub.n.sup.2+ were synthesized, wherein M is a transition metal and L is a ligand and n is 2 or 3. These may be photoactive upon exposure to a laser light beam having an appropriate wavelength of UV light, near-IR and/or visible light. Photoactive materials also include coordination compounds bearing non-energetic ligands; in this case, the counterion may be an oxidant such as perchlorate.
- Inventors:
- Issue Date:
- Research Org.:
- Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1423455
- Patent Number(s):
- 9902748
- Application Number:
- 14/713,807
- Assignee:
- Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, NM)
- Patent Classifications (CPCs):
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C - CHEMISTRY C06 - EXPLOSIVES C06B - EXPLOSIVES OR THERMIC COMPOSITIONS
C - CHEMISTRY C07 - ORGANIC CHEMISTRY C07D - HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUNDS
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC52-06NA25396
- Resource Type:
- Patent
- Resource Relation:
- Patent File Date: 2015 May 15
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE
Citation Formats
Chavez, David E., Hanson, Susan Kloek, Scharff, Robert Jason, Veauthier, Jacqueline Marie, and Myers, Thomas Winfield. Photoactive energetic materials. United States: N. p., 2018.
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Chavez, David E., Hanson, Susan Kloek, Scharff, Robert Jason, Veauthier, Jacqueline Marie, & Myers, Thomas Winfield. Photoactive energetic materials. United States.
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"Photoactive energetic materials". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1423455.
@article{osti_1423455,
title = {Photoactive energetic materials},
author = {Chavez, David E. and Hanson, Susan Kloek and Scharff, Robert Jason and Veauthier, Jacqueline Marie and Myers, Thomas Winfield},
abstractNote = {Energetic materials that are photoactive or believed to be photoactive may include a conventional explosive (e.g. PETN, nitroglycerine) derivatized with an energetic UV-absorbing and/or VIS-absorbing chromophore such as 1,2,4,5-tetrazine or 1,3,5-triazine. Absorption of laser light having a suitably chosen wavelength may result in photodissociation, decomposition, and explosive release of energy. These materials may be used as ligands to form complexes. Coordination compounds include such complexes with counterions. Some having the formula M(L).sub.n.sup.2+ were synthesized, wherein M is a transition metal and L is a ligand and n is 2 or 3. These may be photoactive upon exposure to a laser light beam having an appropriate wavelength of UV light, near-IR and/or visible light. Photoactive materials also include coordination compounds bearing non-energetic ligands; in this case, the counterion may be an oxidant such as perchlorate.},
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