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Journal Article 
A new Secondary Explosive: TKX-50 DEDICATED TO JOE BACKOFEN ON THE OCCASION OF HIS 75TH BIRTHDAY 
Klapoetke, TM 
2020 
Yes 
Chemie in Unserer Zeit
ISSN: 0009-2851 
Wiley-VCH Verlag 
54 
4 
234-241 
German 
WOS:000531877000001 
In the 24th July 2018 issue of the European Defence Review (EDR) magazine, Paolo Valpolini wrote an article about TKX-50 with the title “EURENCO Looks at New Future Energetic Materiel”:. “EURENCO is also looking at explosives with improved performances, which would allow to decrease the ordnance dimensions while maintaining their lethality. Eurenco aims at developing a new explosive based on molecules with higher performances but with less sensitivity and toxicity. The TKX-50 explosive performances are already better than those of Hexogen (RDX) and Octogen (HMX) with a detonation speed that exceeds by 20 % that of current explosives. This is the road that Eurenco will follow, also aiming at compositions with a higher charge density, close to 96 % versus current 85 %. Eurenco aims at testing new molecules in 2019, these being at TRL 4-5, while composition is still at TRL 2-3.”. © 2020, Wiley-VCH Verlag. All rights reserved. 
Energetische Materialien; Explosivstoffe; Sprengstoffe