Ionic Liquids as Hypergolic Fuels

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to report on hypergolicity investigations of other fuel-rich anions, especially the dicyanamide anion. With the discovery of these ionic liquid hypergols, a new path for transitioning these materials into bipropellant applications seems clear. It is expected that these systems can now be fine-tuned for energy content, performance, and desirable physical properties and that they could replace state-of-art; highly toxic hydrazine and its derivatives