• 文献标题:   Functionalized Graphene Sheet Colloids for Enhanced Fuel/Propellant Combustion
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   SABOURIN JL, DABBS DM, YETTER RA, DRYER FL, AKSAY IA
  • 作者关键词:   graphene, metal oxide, nanoparticle, nitromethane, combustion, propellant
  • 出版物名称:   ACS NANO
  • ISSN:   1936-0851 EI 1936-086X
  • 通讯作者地址:   Penn State Univ
  • 被引频次:   138
  • DOI:   10.1021/nn901006w
  • 出版年:   2009

▎ 摘  要

We have compared the combustion of the monopropellant nitromethane with that of nitromethane containing colloidal particles of functionalized graphene sheets or metal hydroxides. The linear steady-state burning rates of the monopropellant and colloidal suspensions were determined at room temperature, under a range of pressures (3.35-14.4 MPa) using argon as a pressurizing fluid. The ignition temperatures were lowered and burning rates increased for the colloidal suspensions compared to those of the liquid monopropellant alone, with the graphene sheet suspension having significantly greater burning rates (i.e., greater than 175%). The relative change in burning rate from neat nitromethane increased with increasing concentrations of fuel additives and decreased with increasing pressure until at high pressures no enhancement was found.