Mechanical properties of HTPB propellants: Recent advances and underlying mechanisms
December 2025
Hydroxyl-terminated polybutadiene (HTPB)-based composite solid propellants (CSPs) are widely used in solid rocket motors due to their excellent mechanical properties and low cost. This review synthesizes...
Progress on additive manufacturing technology of solid propellants
June 2025
The application of Additive Manufacturing (AM) in the production of solid propellants presents new opportunities to enhance the propulsion performance of rockets, missiles, and space launch vehicles....
Ageing studies on AP/HTPB based composites solid propellants
June 2021
Components of solid rocket motor that are susceptible to ageing are propellant, insulator, inhibitor, interfaces, igniter system, and seals. Seals, insulator, ignition systems are replaceable but the...
Multispectral aerosol obscurants: A review
Available online 3 June 2026
Aerosol obscurants are promising materials for multispectral countermeasures due to their efficacy as smoke-producing agents in pyrotechnic compositions for defence applications, particularly in attenuating...
Chemical reaction mechanisms and models of energetic materials: A perspective
March 2025
Energetic materials (EMs) are a kind of metastable functional materials with certain potential barriers, overcoming which can quickly release the energy stored in EMs. A thorough understanding of reaction...
A state-of-the-art review of hydroxylammonium nitrate (HAN)-based gelled propellants
September 2026
This paper presents a systematic review of recent advancements in hydroxylammonium nitrate (HAN)-based gelled propellants, analyzing their advantages and challenges as next-generation green and high-energy...
Stabilizer selection and formulation strategies for enhanced stability of single base nitrocellulose propellants: A review
March 2024
Stabilizers play a crucial role in preventing undesirable decomposition and degradation reactions of propellants, thus ensuring their long-term performance and safe storage. This review highlights recent...
Recent progress in green primary explosives: Synthesis, structure, and performances
Available online 29 July 2026
In recent years, green primary explosives combining high performance with environmental friendliness have emerged as a focal point in the field of energetic materials. This review systematically explores...
UV-curing 3D printing of composite energetic materials and its challenges
March 2026
While 3D printing technologies based on various curing methods like thermal curing, photopolymerization, solvent evaporation molding, and melt cooling have been extensively studied in the field of composite...
Sustainable electrosynthesis of energetic materials: Molecular precision to industrial adaptation - progress and limitations
September 2026
Conventional synthesis methods, relying on strong acids and high-temperature conditions, suffer from issues such as high pollution, energy consumption, and safety hazards. However, electrochemical synthesis...
Advancements in methodologies and techniques for the synthesis of energetic materials: A review
June 2024
Recent years have witnessed significant advancements in methodologies and techniques for the synthesis of energetic materials, which are expected to shape future manufacturing and applications. Techniques...
Towards programming by assembly: A review of structural expandability and functional tunability in perovskite energetic materials
Available online 13 March 2026
The design of energetic materials has entered the era of multi-ion integration, with perovskite energetic materials (PEMs) emerging as a representative category. This review covers PEM developments...
Electrochemical nitration to synthesize 1,3,4- trinitropyrazole
September 2026
To explore a sustainable nitration method for energetic materials, thereby mitigating the risks associated with the use of strong acids and oxidants typically employed in conventional synthesis. The...
Recent advances on the crystallization engineering of energetic materials
December 2020
The safety properties and desirable detonation performance of energetic materials (EMs) are mutually exclusive, therefore, various strategies including the coating, doping, crystallization, and co-crystallization,...
Machine learning-guided property prediction of energetic materials: Recent advances, challenges, and perspectives
September 2022
Predicting chemical properties is one of the most important applications of machine learning. In recent years, the prediction of the properties of energetic materials using machine learning has been...
Construction of one-dimensional ultra heat-resistant perovskite energetic material via dimethyl passivation of labile N–H bonds
Available online 19 August 2026
Perovskite energetic materials (PEMs) featuring the ABX3 architecture enable rational design through independent tuning of the A, B and X-site, and mono-methylation of A-site has been verified to enhance...
Comprehensive kinetic study and shelf-life prediction of melt-cast insensitive explosive composition
December 2026
In recent years, insensitive explosives have gained extensive attention for their unique ability to combine high operational performance with superior safety properties. This work sheds light on DNAN-based...
Three-dimensional printing of energetic materials: A review
June 2022
Additive manufacturing technology or three-dimensional (3D) printing has been applied in many manufacture fields. The combination of 3D printing and conventional energetic material fields can create...
Synthetic chemistry of energetic materials: Evolution, current trends, and AI-driven future
September 2025
Energetic materials are capable of storing vast amounts of chemical energy and releasing it over a very short period of time, leading to an irreplaceable usage in both military and civilian applications....
Successful development of HAN based green propellant
September 2021
Research and development of Hydroxyl Ammonium Nitrate based liquid propellant; SHP-163 is reviewed. Starting from the composition selection of the propellant to the development of 1 N thruster of Green...
EM Database v1.0: A benchmark informatics platform for data-driven discovery of energetic materials
December 2024
Large-scale data demonstrates great significance for the discovery of novel energetic materials (EMs). However, the open-source databases of EMs are not readily available. In pursuit of high-performance...
Electrochemically driving C-C coupling of the pyrimidine ring via C-H activation for constructing the energetic skeleton
September 2026
In recent years, due to the advantages of green and safe electrochemical synthesis, researchers have gradually introduced it into the field of energetic material. However, electrochemistry is mainly...
Constructing Hydrogen-bond network through vicinal amino-nitro and hydroxyl-nitro structure on the fused ring to synthesize heat-resistant explosives
Available online 1 August 2026
Heat-resistant energetic materials that combine excellent thermal stability, high energetic performance, and low sensitivity remain a significant challenge. We constructed vicinal amino-nitro and hydroxy-nitro...
Understanding the role of ceric ammonium nitrate (CAN) in low-burning mixed nitrate ester propellants
Available online 16 July 2026
In this study, the effect of ceric ammonium nitrate (CAN) as a lead-free additive on the combustion and thermal behavior of mixed nitrate ester propellant (MNP) was investigated. CAN was added to the...
Nitrogen-rich tetracyclic-based heterocyclic energetic materials
June 2023
This review provides numerous studies on nitrogen-rich tetracyclic-based heterocyclic energetic materials including oxadiazole, tetrazole, triazole, pyrazole, imidazole and tetrazine. The article mainly...