Publication List:

1. Puszynski, J.A., Jayaraman, S., Carpenter, G., Carpenter, P., and Bichay, M.; "Formation and Reactivity
of Nanosized Aluminum Powders", Proceedings of the World Congress on Particle Technology, Sydney,
Australia, Paper 164, 2002.

2. Puszynski, J.A.; "Formation, Characterization and Reactivity of Nanoenergetic Materials"
Proceedings of the 29th International Pyrotechnic Conference, Westminster, CO, 191-202, 2002.


3. B. C. Tappan and T. B. Brill, "Thermal Decomposition of Energetic Materials 85.
Cryogels of Nanoscale Hydrazinium Diperchlorate in Resorcinol-Formaldehyde," Prop.
Explos. Pyrotech. 28, 72 (2003).

4. B. C. Tappan and T. B. Brill, "Thermal Decomposition of Energetic Materials 86.
Cryogel Synthesis of Nanocrystalline CL-20 Coated with Cured Nitrocellulose," Prop.
Explos. Pyrotech. 28, 223 (2003).

5. T. B. Brill, B. C. Tappan, and Jun Li, "Synthesis and Characterization of Nanocrystalline
Oxidizer/Monopropellant Formulations," Materials Research Society Symposium
Proceedings, Vol. 800, Boston, Ma, Dec. 2003, p.47.

6. N Settumba and S. C. Garrick, "Direct numerical simulation of nanoparticle coagulation
in a temporal mixing layer via a moment method," Journal of Aerosol Science 34(2),
149-167 (2003).

7. D. Mukherjee, S. Sowone, and M.R. Zachariah "A Kinetic Monte-Carlo Study of the
Effect Coalescence Energy Release on Primary Particle Size in Coagulating
Nanoaerosols," J. Chem. Phys. 119(6), 3391-3404 (2003).

8. A. Prakash, A.P. Bapat, and M.R. Zachariah, "A Simple Algorithm and Software for
Solution of Nucleation, Surface Growth and Coagulation Problems," Aeros. Sci. Tech 37,
892 (2003).

9. S. Alavi, D. C. Sorescu, and D. L. Thompson, "Adsorption of HCl on a Single-Crystal α-
Al2O3 (0001) Surface," J. Phys. Chem. B 107, 186-195 (2003).
D. C. Sorescu, J. A. Boatz, and D. L. Thompson, "First-Principles Calculations of the
Adsorption of Nitromethane and 1,1-Diamino-2,2-dinitroethylene (FOX-7) Molecules on
the Al (111) Surface," J. Phys. Chem. 107, 8953-8964 (2003).

10. Valliappan, S., Bulian, C., and Puszynski, J.A., "Investigation of Al-CuO Nanocomposite
Reacting System," Proceedings of EUROPYRO 2003, Vol. 2, 536-541, 2003.


11. N. E. Schultz, G. Staszewska, P. Staszewski, and D. G. Truhlar,
"Validation of
Theoretical Methods for the Structure and Energy of Aluminum Clusters,
" Journal of
Physical Chemistry B 108, 4850-4861 (2004).

12. A. W. Jasper, P. Staszewski, G. Staszewska, N. E. Schultz, and D. G. Truhlar, "Analytic
potential energy functions for aluminum clusters," Journal of Physical Chemistry B 108,
8996-9010 (2004).

13. N. Settumba and S. C. Garrick, "A comparison of diffusion transport in moment method
formulations for nanoparticle coagulation," Journal of Aerosol Science 35(1), 93-101
(2004).

14. T. Hawa and M.R. Zachariah, "A Molecular Dynamics Study of the Role of Surface
Passivation on the Reactivity of Hydrogen Coated Silicon Nanoparticles," Phys. Rev B
69, 35417 (2004).

15. S. H. Kim , B. Liu and M.R. Zachariah "Ultra High Surface Area Silica Particles,"
Langmuir 20, 2523 (2004).

16. A. Prakash, A. McCormick and M.R. Zachariah, "Aero-Sol-Gel Formation of
Nanoporous Iron Oxide: A Potential Oxidizer for NanoEnergetic Materials," Chemistry
of Materials 16(8), 1466-1471 (2004).

17. Saman Alavi and Donald L. Thompson, "A Molecular Dynamics Study of Structural and
Physical Properties of Nitromethane Nanoparticles," J. Chem. Phys. 120, 10231-10238
(2004).

18. Bulian, C.J., Kerr, T.T., and Puszynski, J.A.; "Ignition Studies of Aluminum and Metal Oxide
Nanopowders", 31th Proceedings of the International Pyrotechnic Seminar, 327-338, 2004.

19. Puszynski, J.A., "Recent Advances and Initiatives in the Field of Nanotechnology", (invited),
31th Proceedings of the International Pyrotechnic Seminar, 233-240, 2004.

20. Puszynski, J.A.; "Reactivity of Nanosize Aluminum with Metal Oxides and Water Vapor", Mat.
Res. Soc. Symp.  Proc., 800, AA6.4.1 (2004).

21. Valliappan, S., Swiatkiewicz, S., and Puszynski, J.A.; "Reactivity of Aluminum Nanopowders
with Metal Oxides", accepted for publication in the Journal of Powder Technology, (2004).

22. Schultz, N. E. and Truhlar, D. G.;
"A New Effective Potential and Effective Core Method
(Effective Core Potential and Valence Basis Set) for Al Clusters and Nanoparticles and
Heternuclear Al-Containing Molecules", Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 1, 41 (2005).

23.
G. Staszewska, P. Staszewski, N. E. Schultz, and D. G. Truhlar, "Many-Body Tight-Binding
Model for Aluminum Nanoparticles,
" Physical Review B 71, 045423 (2005).

24. A. W. Jasper, N. E. Schultz, and D. G. Truhlar, "Analytic Potential Energy Functions for
Simulating Aluminum Nanoparticles," Journal of Physical Chemistry B 109, 3915 (2005).

25.  B. Zhang, B. Liu, T. Renault, S. L. Girshick, and M. R. Zachariah, "Synthesis of aluminum nanoparticles
using DC thermal plasma," 17th International Symposium on Plasma Chemistry, Toronto, Aug. 7-12,   2005,
Abstracts, pp. 832-833, full paper on compact disk.


26.  B. Zhang, B. Liu and S. L. Girshick, "Thermal plasma synthesis of aluminum nanoparticles," Abstracts ,
24th Annual Conference of the American Association for Aerosol Research, Austin, TX, Oct. 17-21, 2005, p. 330.