US Government as Represented by the Secretary of the Army

Alexander Paraskos

Victor Stepanov

Hongwei Qiu

Rajen B Patel

Ruslan Mudryy

Edward D Cooke

Chris Pizzo

Eric R Beckel

The present invention is directed to a process for preparing light curable energetic polymeric binders. The process for preparing such binder comprises the steps of mixing a pre-polymer such as PGN or GAP having a terminal hydroxyl group with a solvent and adding reactants wherein the reactant has a light curable moiety and a pre-polymer reactive moiety. Catalysts such as carbodiimide and DMAP may be further added to the mixture.

Process for preparing light curable energetic binder

Stabilized, amorphous high energetic compositions having crystallization inhibiting polymers dispersed throughout the solid composition. The compositions disclosed herein are an improvement over crystalline high energetic compositions in that such disclosed compositions are stable and possess physical properties desirable in propellant and high explosive applications.

Amorphous energetics

A method for the manufacture of stable amorphous secondary explosives and combinations thereof&#x2014;wherein the stability is enhanced with the addition of a polymeric additives and can be further enhanced with mechanical compression of the amorphous material.

Method for manufacture of amorphous energetics

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