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US 8,506,734 B1Granted
Host-guest complexes of solid oxidizers materials and metal-organic frameworks
AssigneeThe United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
InventorsAndrew P. Nelson, Nirupam J. Trivedi
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Abstract
A process for making metal-organic frameworks and metal-organic frameworks having host-guest complexes of either liquid energetics, solid energetics, or solid oxidizers.
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A host-guest complex as an energetic component in an insensitive munitions weapons system, comprising:
- an effective amount of at least one host having organic ligand(s) combined with an effective amount of at least one metal salts(s) to form ligand(s)/metal cluster(s) complex, wherein said ligand(s)/metal cluster(s) complex form at least one porous framework host configured to house a guest;
- at least one said guest being a solid energetic/explosive material, wherein said guest is housed substantially within said host, wherein said host is Aluminum terephthalate;
- providing a solvothermal combination mechanism to form said porous framework(s);
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- dissolving said energetic guest in said solvent followed by the exchange of said incoming solid energetic saturated solution for said outgoing solvent present as a result of said framework host synthesis.
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A process for making a host-guest complex as an energetic component in insensitive munitions weapons, comprising:
- combining an effective amount of at least one host having organic ligand(s) with an effective amount of at least one metal salt, wherein said host is Aluminum terephthalate;
- forming a ligand(s)/metal cluster(s) complex:
- forming at least one porous framework host configured to house a guest from said ligand(s)/metal cluster(s) complex;
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- providing at least one said guest being an oxidizer;
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- incorporating said guest such that said guest being housed substantially within said host.
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A process for a host-guest complex as an energetic component in an insensitive munitions complex framework, comprising:
- an effective amount of at least one host having organic ligand(s) combined with an effective amount of at least one metal salt to form ligand(s)/metal cluster(s) complex, wherein said ligand(s)/metal cluster(s) complex being combined to form at least one porous framework host configured to house a guest;
- at least one said guest being a solid energetic/explosive material, wherein said guest is housed substantially within said host, wherein said host is Aluminum terephthalate;
- providing a solvothermal combination mechanism to form said porous framework(s);
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- incorporating said solid energetic guest involving either a liquid/liquid exchange of said incoming solid energetic material as a molten material for a solvent present as a result of said framework host synthesis or dissolving said energetic guest in said solvent followed by the exchange of said incoming solid energetic saturated solution for said outgoing solvent present as a result of said framework host synthesis.
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