title: Exploiting hydrophobic borohydride-rich ionic liquids as faster-igniting rocket fuels.
abstract: A family of hydrophobic borohydride-rich ionic liquids was developed, which exhibited the shortest ignition delay times of 1.7 milliseconds and the lowest viscosity (10 mPa s) of hypergolic ionic fluids, demonstrating their great potential as faster-igniting rocket fuels to replace toxic hydrazine derivatives in liquid bipropellant formulations.
authors.affiliation: Research Center of Energetic Material Genome Science, Institute of Chemical Materials, China Academy of Engineering Physics (CAEP) Mianyang, 621900, China. qinghuazhang@caep.cn.
authors.forename: Tianlin
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: Southwest University of Science and Technology, Mianyang, China.
authors.forename: Xiujuan
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Qi
authors.affiliation: Research Center of Energetic Material Genome Science, Institute of Chemical Materials, China Academy of Engineering Physics (CAEP) Mianyang, 621900, China. qinghuazhang@caep.cn.
authors.forename: Shi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.affiliation: Southwest University of Science and Technology, Mianyang, China.
authors.forename: Linhai
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Jiang
authors.affiliation: School of Power and Energy, Northwestern Polytechnical University Xi'an, China.
authors.forename: Jianling
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Multiphase Flows in Power Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China.
authors.forename: Chenglong
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Tang
authors.affiliation: Research Center of Energetic Material Genome Science, Institute of Chemical Materials, China Academy of Engineering Physics (CAEP) Mianyang, 621900, China. qinghuazhang@caep.cn.
authors.forename: Qinghua
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Zhang