Energetic materials have variety of applications. Many new energetic materials have emerged recently in order to meet the challenging requirements to improve the performance of existing products and reduce their pollutant nature. One of the more prominent types is energetic salts. Energetic salts offer many advantages over conventional energetic molecular compounds. The use of nitrogen containing anions and cations contribute to high heats of formations and high densities. Their low carbon and hydrogen content gives rise to a good oxygen balance. The decomposition of these compounds is predominantly through the generation of dinitrogen which makes them very promising candidates for highly energetic materials for industrial applications.
The energy and stability of energetic materials are contradictory to each other. How to achieve the balance between the two is of important scientific significance and strategic value. Therefore, the main goal of this subject is to create high-energy and relatively insensitive nitrogen-rich energetic salts, understand the design of these salts, the synthesis reaction process, and share the relevant strategies of crystal engineering and the prospects of energetic co-crystals of ionic salts. The aim of this Research Topic is to cover promising, recent developments of novel nitrogen-rich energetic salts and their co-crystals in the energetic materials field. We welcome Original Research, Review, Mini-Review and Perspective in areas including but not limited to:
• Nitrogen-rich fused ring energetic salts
• Synthesis of nitrogen-rich energetic salts
• The relationship between the crystal structures and properties of nitrogen-rich energetic salts
• Crystal engineering of nitrogen-rich energetic salts
• Polynitrogen species (eg. N5-, N3-, N5+) based energetic salts
Energetic materials have variety of applications. Many new energetic materials have emerged recently in order to meet the challenging requirements to improve the performance of existing products and reduce their pollutant nature. One of the more prominent types is energetic salts. Energetic salts offer many advantages over conventional energetic molecular compounds. The use of nitrogen containing anions and cations contribute to high heats of formations and high densities. Their low carbon and hydrogen content gives rise to a good oxygen balance. The decomposition of these compounds is predominantly through the generation of dinitrogen which makes them very promising candidates for highly energetic materials for industrial applications.
The energy and stability of energetic materials are contradictory to each other. How to achieve the balance between the two is of important scientific significance and strategic value. Therefore, the main goal of this subject is to create high-energy and relatively insensitive nitrogen-rich energetic salts, understand the design of these salts, the synthesis reaction process, and share the relevant strategies of crystal engineering and the prospects of energetic co-crystals of ionic salts. The aim of this Research Topic is to cover promising, recent developments of novel nitrogen-rich energetic salts and their co-crystals in the energetic materials field. We welcome Original Research, Review, Mini-Review and Perspective in areas including but not limited to:
• Nitrogen-rich fused ring energetic salts
• Synthesis of nitrogen-rich energetic salts
• The relationship between the crystal structures and properties of nitrogen-rich energetic salts
• Crystal engineering of nitrogen-rich energetic salts
• Polynitrogen species (eg. N5-, N3-, N5+) based energetic salts