This protocol describes the preparation of gasless nanostructured energetic materials (Ni+Al, Ta+C, Ti+C) using the short-term high-energy ball milling (HEBM) technique. It also describes a high-speed thermal imaging method to study the reactivity of mechanically fabricated nanocomposites. These protocols can be extended to other reactive nanostructured energetic materials.
Manukyan, K. V., Shuck, C. E., Rogachev, A. S., Mukasyan, A. S. Preparation and Reactivity of Gasless Nanostructured Energetic Materials. J. Vis. Exp. (98), e52624, doi:10.3791/52624 (2015).