Experimental insight into interaction mechanism of guanidinium-5-aminotetrazole (GA) and nitrocellulose

5-Amino-1H-tetrazole (5-ATZ), an environmentally friendly energy-containing material for new propellants, is gradually applied in high-energy propellants and its ionic salt compounds have received wide attention. This study focused on investigating the interaction mechanism of guanidinium-5-aminotetrazole (GA) and nitrocellulose (NC) by kinetic methods and TG-DSC-FTIR analysis. DSC and TG experiments indicated that there was a certain interaction during the pyrolysis process of NC and GA. Comparing the kinetic models of NC and peak 3 in NC-GA, it can be found that the addition of GA mainly affected the m-value and contribution in the second step B→C, and the mechanism function changed from F n to C n,m. TG-DSC-FTIR experiments indicated that the initial decomposition product of NC, NO 2 , participated in the thermal decomposition process of GA, and the two reacted chemically to form CO, N 2 O, which made NO 2 unable to completely oxidize the skeleton of NC to produce CH 2 O, HCOOH.