The Dynamics of Carbon Nanostructures at Detonation of Condensed High Explosives

TL;DR

This paper analyzes how conductive carbon nanostructures influence the electrical conductivity during the detonation of high explosives, highlighting the correlation between carbon content and conductivity through experimental data.

Contribution

It proposes that contact mechanisms along carbon nanostructures primarily determine conductivity throughout the detonation wave, based on experimental conductivity graphs.

Findings

Conductivity correlates with carbon content in explosives.

Contact mechanisms along carbon nanostructures dominate conductivity.

Experimental data supports the role of carbon nanostructures in detonation conductivity.

Abstract

Based on the obtained earlier experimental conductivity graphs at detonation of five different high explosives, an analysis was performed which shows a correlation between the carbon content and the conductivity magnitude. An assumption was put forward that the conductivity in the whole detonation wave is provided by the contact mechanism along conductive carbon nanostructures.