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Chemists Create Next-Gen Rocket Fuel Compound That Packs 150% More Energy
UAlbany chemists created manganese diboride, a high-energy material with potential for rocket fuel and new technologies. Chemists at the University at Albany have developed a high-energy compound that could transform rocket fuel and make space travel more efficient. When ignited, this compound pr
Credit: Brian Busher UAlbany chemists created manganese diboride, a high-energy material with potential for rocket fuel and new technologies. Credit: Brian Busher“Our model of the manganese diboride compound looks like a cross-section of an ice cream sandwich, where the outer cookies are made of a lattice structure comprised of interlocking hexagons,” said John. Reference: “Violations of Coordination: Exploring Metastable Diborides via Energetic Transition Metals” by Joseph T. Doane, Gregory M. John, Alma Kolakji, Abraham A. Rosenberg, Yiren Zhang, Alan A. Chen and Michael T. Yeung, 2 May 2025, Journal of the American Chemical Society.
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