02-05-2011, 06:11 AM
Jim, I'm not so sure it has been 'oversold'. The US research labs had produced papers on advanced [many nano]-energetic materials and listed nanothermite and nanothermate formulations among them. It was, I believe, the carbon compound in the dust found at the WTC that was supposed to give it the explosive capability, along with the cutting action.
From: http://911research.wtc7.net/essays/therm...composites
"Energetic materials such as aluminothermic sol-gels have been an active area of research in the US national labs since the mid-1990s or earlier, including under the auspices of NIST itself -- a fact documented by Kevin Ryan in his extensively footnoted article The Top Ten Connections Between NIST and Nano-Thermites. Also called "metastable intermolecular composites", "nano-structured energetic materials", or just "nanoenergetics", these materials have been the subject of numerous conferences, research papers, and patents in the past two decades. [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] It's also not difficult to find recent published papers on methods of reliably igniting such materials with minute low-power devices described as MEMS (microelectromechanical systems) and manufactured much like conventional integrated circuits. [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] It requires little imagination to grasp how such techniques could be exploited to implement a covert, all-wireless controlled demolition."
6. Reactive Projectiles Comprised of Metastable Intermolecular Composites, lanl.gov, [cached]
7. Energy dense explosives, USPTO.gov, [cached]
8. Inorganic metal oxide/organic polymer nanocomposites and method thereof, USPTO.gov, [cached]
9. Nano-scale energetic materials fabrication, characterization and molecular modeling, European Materials Research Society, [cached]
10. Formation of Nanostructured Energetic Materials via Modified Sol-Gel Synthesis, mrs.org, [cached]
11. Metastable intermolecular composite, en.wikipedia.org, [cached]
12. On-Chip Initiation and Burn Rate Measurements of Thermite Energetic Reactions, mrs.org, [cached]
13. Unique Porous Copper Structure Enables New Generation Of Military ..., sciencedaily.com,
14. Integrated thin film explosive micro-detonator, http://www.dodtechmatch.com/,
15. Military eyes MEMS weapons detonators that could be fabbed on IC lines, pennwellblogs.com,
16. MEMS microdetonator/initiator apparatus for a MEMS fuze, USPTO.gov,
17. In-plane MEMS thermal actuator and associated fabrication methods, USPTO.gov,
18. Method and system for making integrated solid-state fire-sets and detonators, USPTO.gov,
From: http://911research.wtc7.net/essays/therm...composites
"Energetic materials such as aluminothermic sol-gels have been an active area of research in the US national labs since the mid-1990s or earlier, including under the auspices of NIST itself -- a fact documented by Kevin Ryan in his extensively footnoted article The Top Ten Connections Between NIST and Nano-Thermites. Also called "metastable intermolecular composites", "nano-structured energetic materials", or just "nanoenergetics", these materials have been the subject of numerous conferences, research papers, and patents in the past two decades. [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] It's also not difficult to find recent published papers on methods of reliably igniting such materials with minute low-power devices described as MEMS (microelectromechanical systems) and manufactured much like conventional integrated circuits. [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] It requires little imagination to grasp how such techniques could be exploited to implement a covert, all-wireless controlled demolition."
6. Reactive Projectiles Comprised of Metastable Intermolecular Composites, lanl.gov, [cached]
7. Energy dense explosives, USPTO.gov, [cached]
8. Inorganic metal oxide/organic polymer nanocomposites and method thereof, USPTO.gov, [cached]
9. Nano-scale energetic materials fabrication, characterization and molecular modeling, European Materials Research Society, [cached]
10. Formation of Nanostructured Energetic Materials via Modified Sol-Gel Synthesis, mrs.org, [cached]
11. Metastable intermolecular composite, en.wikipedia.org, [cached]
12. On-Chip Initiation and Burn Rate Measurements of Thermite Energetic Reactions, mrs.org, [cached]
13. Unique Porous Copper Structure Enables New Generation Of Military ..., sciencedaily.com,
14. Integrated thin film explosive micro-detonator, http://www.dodtechmatch.com/,
15. Military eyes MEMS weapons detonators that could be fabbed on IC lines, pennwellblogs.com,
16. MEMS microdetonator/initiator apparatus for a MEMS fuze, USPTO.gov,
17. In-plane MEMS thermal actuator and associated fabrication methods, USPTO.gov,
18. Method and system for making integrated solid-state fire-sets and detonators, USPTO.gov,
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