Patent 9227883 was granted and assigned to Purdue Research Foundation on January, 2016 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
The invention provides mechanically activated metal fuels for energetic material applications. An exemplary embodiment involves mechanically treating micrometer-sized particles of at least one metal with particles of at least one fluorocarbon to form composite particles containing the at least one metal and the at least one fluorocarbon.