Ceramics as Catalysts and Catalyst Supports for Propulsion Applications - The Objectives and the Challenges

Kappenstein, Charles; Joulin, Jean-Pierre

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“…Monopropellants are liquids which consist of a single compound including both fuel and oxidiser 77 . Once contacted with a catalyst such as Shell-405, IryAl 2 O 3 they react hypergolically 78 . The target for current research in our Munich laboratories (and elsewhere) is the development of new monopropellants which are non-toxic and which exhibit at least equivalent and possibly enhanced performance over hydrazine and having decreased sensitivity enabling their use as rocket propellants.…”

Section: Ils In Their Role As Hypergolic Fuels and Propellantsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Ionic liquids–an Overview

Jenkins

2011

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A virtually unprecedented exponential burst of activity resulted following the publication, in 1998, of an article by Michael Freeman (Freemantle, M. Chemical & Engineering News, 1998, March 30, 32), which speculated on the role and contribution that ionic liquids (ILs) might make in the future on the development of clean technology. Up until that time only a handful of researchers were routinely engaged in the study of ILs but frenzied activity followed that continues until the present day. Scientists from all disciplines related to Chemistry have now embarked on studies, including theoreticians who are immersed in the aim of improving the ''designer role'' so that they can tailor ILs to deliver specified properties. This article, whilst not in any sense attempting to be exhaustive, highlights the main features which characterise ILs, presenting these in a form readily assimilated by newcomers to this area of research. An extensive glossary is featured in this article as well as a chronological list which charts the major areas of development. What follows consists of a number of sections briefly describing the role of ILs as solvents, hypergolic fuels, their use in some electrochemical devices such as solar cells and lithium batteries and their use in polymerisation reactions, followed by a concise summary of some of the other roles that they are capable of playing. The role of empirical, volume-based thermodynamics procedures, as well as large scale computational studies on ILs is also highlighted. These developments which are described are remarkable in that they have been achieved in less than a decade and a half, although knowledge of these materials has existed for much longer.

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Section: Ils In Their Role As Hypergolic Fuels and Propellantsmentioning

confidence: 99%