Bioinspired High-Performance Energetic Materials Using Heme-Containing Crystals.

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Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH, 45433, USA.

Published: August 2015

Synthetic hemozoin crystals (β-hematin) are assembled with aluminium nanoparticles (nAl) to create a nanomaterial composite that is highly energetic and reactive. The results here demonstrate that hemozoin rapidly oxidizes the nAl fuel to release large amounts of energy (+12.5 ± 2.4 kJ g(-1) ).

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/smll.201403659DOI Listing

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