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Royal Society of Chemistry, RSC Advances, 92(4), p. 50998-51001, 2014

DOI: 10.1039/c4ra08868a

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A solar-energy-derived strained hydrocarbon as an energetic hypergolic fuel

Journal article published in 2014 by Lun Pan ORCID, Ren Feng, Hao Peng, Xiu-Tian-Feng E., Ji-Jun Zou ORCID, Li Wang, Xiangwen Zhang
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Abstract

Quadricyclane(QC), synthesized from photoisomerization and commonly used for solar-energy conversion and storage, is found to be excellent hypergolic fuel. The ignition delay time of QC/N2O4 is 29ms, which is decreased to 18ms by addition of boron nanoparticles. Importantly, quadricyclane has 18.9% higher specific impulsion than currently used but dangerous dimethylhydrazine.