'World's smallest controlled heat source' studies explosives at the nanoscale

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Georgia Tech Assistant Professor William King displays an experimental apparatus for nanoscale thermal analysis. Credit: Georgia Tech Photo: Gary Meek
Georgia Tech Assistant Professor William King displays an experimental apparatus for nanoscale thermal analysis. Credit: Georgia Tech Photo: Gary Meek

Using nanometer scale analysis techniques and quantities too small to explode, researchers have mapped the temperature and length-sale factors that make energetic materials – otherwise known as explosives – behave the way they do.


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