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Acta Armamentarii ›› 2010, Vol. 31 ›› Issue (10): 1322-1326.

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MD Simulation of the Crystal Morphology of β-HMX Affected by NTOFOX-7 and RDX

HUANG Can-can, LI Li-jie, CHEN Shu-sen, JIN Shao-hua, YUAN Liu, CHEN Teng-xiao   

  1. (School of Material Science and Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China)
  • Received:2009-03-23 Revised:2009-03-23 Online:2014-05-04
  • Contact: HUANG Can-can E-mail:hc19890101@163.com

Abstract: The crystal growth morphology of β-HMX was simulated using a molecular dynamics (MD) method and Material Studio software. A double-layer structure model was used to simulate the effect of insensitive energetic compounds NTO, FOX-7 and RDX on β-HMX crystal morphology, as well as their coating role on β-HMX crystal. The results show that three types of molecules can be attached to the grown crystal face of β-HMX, of which FOX-7 can be evenly attached to the β-HMX crystal face, expecting to achieve high energy-insensitive coating, but having a little influence on β-HMX crystal morphology. NTO and RDX molecules have different bonding energy on each β-HMX crystal face, so they can control the HMX crystal morphology to some extent, of which, RDX can make β-HMX tend to spherical crystal morphology.

Key words: physicochemistry, β-HMX, molecule dynamics simulation, binding energy, coating

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