Predicting the impact sensitivities of energetic materials through zone-center phonon up-pumping
- 10 February 2021
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in The Journal of Chemical Physics
- Vol. 154 (6), 064105
- https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0036927
Abstract
The development of new energetic materials (EMs) is accompanied by significant hazards, prompting interest in their computational design. Before reliable in silico design strategies can be realized, however, approaches to understand and predict EM response to mechanical impact must be developed. We present here a fully ab initio model based on phonon up-pumping that successfully ranks the relative impact sensitivity of a series of organic EMs. The methodology depends only on the crystallographic unit cell and Brillouin zone center vibrational frequencies. We, therefore, expect this approach to become an integral tool in the large-scale screening of potential EMs.Keywords
Funding Information
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research (FA8655-20-1-7000)
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/P020194/1)
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