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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 23, 2019
Filed:
Aug. 18, 2017
Department of the Navy, Indian Head, MD (US);
Raafat H. Guirguis, Fairfax, VA (US);
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy, Washington, DC (US);
Abstract
A process for converting a crystalline energetic material to an amorphous energetic material that is less susceptible to accidental detonation initiation by mechanical insults. The process includes forming the amorphous energetic material as a deposition of a vapor of the crystalline energetic material sublimed from a hot surface in a vacuum. The deposition is onto a cryogenically cold surface of a dry ice layer. The deposition solidifies as a layer of amorphous energetic material. Subliming the dry ice layer therein breaking the layer of amorphous energetic material into a powder of the amorphous energetic material; and collecting the powder.