National University of Science and Technology MISIS 1 article published in JoVE Engineering Preparation and Reactivity of Gasless Nanostructured Energetic Materials Khachatur V. Manukyan1, Christopher E. Shuck2, Alexander S. Rogachev3, Alexander S. Mukasyan2 1Department of Physics, University of Notre Dame, 2Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Notre Dame, 3Center of Functional Nano-Ceramics, National University of Science and Technology, "MISIS" This protocol describes the preparation of gasless nanostructured energetic materials (Ni+Al, Ta+C, Ti+C) using the short-term high-energy ball milling (HEBM) technique. It also describes a high-speed thermal imaging method to study the reactivity of mechanically fabricated nanocomposites. These protocols can be extended to other reactive nanostructured energetic materials.
