Carbon Nanotube Based Pyrophoric Substrates with a Tunable Response for Infrared Countermeasures

摘要

In recent years there has been a significant effort to exploit the pyrophoricity of various metal nanoparticles for Department of Defense (DoD) applications. Materials based on iron (Fe) are highly desirable because i) pyrophoric iron particles can be easily generated by reduction of inexpensive Fe-based precursors under hydrogen at relatively low temperatures 350-600 deg C and ii) the oxidation product is environmentally benign.