Science Daily  September 28, 2023 Flammability and combustion of high energy density liquid propellants are controlled by their volatility. Researchers at UC Riverside designed a fuel that ignites only with the application of electric current. They demonstrated a new concept through which the volatility of a high energy density ionic liquid propellant can be dynamically manipulated enabling one to (a) store a thermally insensitive oxidation resistant nonflammable fuel, (b) generate flammable vapor phase species electrochemically by applying a direct-current voltage bias, and (c) extinguish its flame by removing the voltage bias, which stops its volatilization. They showed that a thermally […]