Anne Jung

2 months ago | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Anne Jung |Christoph Pauly |Peter Schaaf |TU Ilmenau

While the redox-reaction-based thermite mixtures for exothermic reactions are well-known since a long time, systematic research on non-thermite reactive materials dates back to the 1960s in the USSR when Merzhanov and Borovinskaya did groundbreaking work on powder-based transition metal/carbon mixtures. Since then, the class of ingredients has widened to include metal/metal mixtures and with the progress in physical vapor deposition, precise nanoscale layering of the reactant has become possible.