Energetic Materials ─ Advanced Processing Technologies for Next-Generation Materials

This book will take an in-depth look at the technologies, processes, and capabilities to develop and produce "next generation" energetic materials for both commercial and defense applications, including military, mining operations, oil production and well perforation, and construction demolition. It will serve to highlight the critical technologies, latest developments, and the current capability gaps that serve as barriers to military fielding or transition to the commercial marketplace. It will also explain how the processing technologies can be spun out for use in other non-energetics related industries.

Mr. Mark J. Mezger is Senior Technology Advisor for Energetics Development Initiatives at the US Army Armament Research Development and Engineering Center at Picatinny Arsenal, NJ, where he earlier held positions in the Office of the Director of Technology, and the Business Interface Office. Through the establishment of public-private partnerships, Mr. Mezger created a national nanotechnology network with regional areas of expertise. He also served as RDECOM Nanotechnology Integrated Product Team Chairman. Through his associations with the National Nanotechnology Manufacturing Center in Georgia, Pennsylvania NanoMaterials Commercialization Center technical advisory board, the Lehigh Valley Nanotechnology Network, the Nanotechnology Enterprise Consortium in Missouri, and the Greater Garden State Nanotechnology Alliance, he has established for the Army one of the largest nano particle reactor facilities in North America and is currently involved in applying this technology to explosive and reactive materials. His ExMT in Technology Management is from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and Bachelors of Science degrees in Math-Physics and in Engineering Science are from the SUNY at Buffalo.