LYME WESTERN BLOT INTERPRETIVE SOFTWARE

Not Available This program will develop aluminum filled crosslinked organic polymers into which a liquid oxidizer such as a hydroxylammonium nitrate eutectic can be swollen. These beads can then be used as an injectable solution solid propellant, having many of the advantages of solids and liquids with few of the disadvantages. Higher motor mass fractions can be realized because no insulation, liners or motor cores are required. Also, this propellant system in inherently safe because the beads and the oxidizer do not have to be combined in the storage chamber until a short time prior to use. The beads will make possible the distribution of dense solid powders in a polymer matrix such that the composite density of the beads will be close to that of the liquid oxidizer and, as a consequence, will remain permanently suspended in the excess liquid oxidizer used. Performance should be comparable to aluminized solid propellants.