Table of Contents

Historical Account of Energetic Materials – Past, Present and Future.- Munitions Safety and Modern Approach.- Synthesis of Energetic Materials.-Bottom Up and Top Down Approaches to Assessment and Decision Support for Energetic Materials.- Design of Energetics and Munitions for Demilitarization.-Scaling of Energetic Compounds – From Laboratory to Industry.- Quantum Mechanical Calculations of Structures and Properties of Energetic Compounds.- Multiscale Modeling of Energetic materials.- Nanoenergetic – Present and Future Direction.- Energetic Properties of High Performance Energetic Material System.- High Pressure Phenomena in Energetic Materials.- Life-Cycle Analysis of Energetic Compounds.- Environmental Consequences of Energetic Compounds.- Fate and Transport of Energetic Materials Release and Exposure of Energetic Compounds.- Energetic Material Induced Environmental Toxicity.- QSAR Approach Predicting Environmental Toxicity of Explosive Compounds.- Hydrolysis of Explosive Compounds.-Photodegradation of Explosive Compounds.- Environmental Remediation of Contamination due to Energetic Compounds.

About the Author

Manoj Shukla is Computational Chemistry Team Leader at the Environmental Laboratory, US Army Engineer Research and Development Center, Vicksburg, MS, USA.

Veera M. Boddu is the Research Leader of the Plant Polymer Research Unit (PPL) at the National Center for Agriculture Utilization Research (NCAUR), Agriculture Research Service, US Department of Agriculture, ARS/USDA, 1815 N. University St., Peoria, IL  61604, USA

Jeffery Steevens is a Research Toxicologist at the U.S. Geological Survey, Columbia Environmental Research Center, Columbia, MO, USA.

Damavarapu Reddy is Research Chemist at the U.S. Army Armament Research, Development, and Engineering Center, Picatinny, NJ, USA.

Jerzy Leszczynski is a Professor of Chemistry and President's Distinguished Fellow at the Jackson State University, Jackson, MS, USA.