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Synthesis of nanoparticles in a flame aerosol reactor with independent and strict control of their size, crystal phase and morphology

Jingkun Jiang, Da-Ren Chen and Pratim Biswas1

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A flame aerosol reactor (FLAR) was developed to synthesize nanoparticles with desired properties (crystal phase and size) that could be independently controlled. The methodology was demonstrated for TiO2 nanoparticles, and this is the first time that large sets of samples with the same size but different crystal phases (six different ratios of anatase to rutile in this work) were synthesized. The degree of TiO2 nanoparticle agglomeration was determined by comparing the primary particle size distribution measured by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) to the mobility-based particle size distribution measured by online scanning mobility particle spectrometry (SMPS). By controlling the flame aerosol reactor conditions, both spherical unagglomerated particles and highly agglomerated particles were produced. To produce monodisperse nanoparticles, a high throughput multi-stage differential mobility analyser (MDMA) was used in series with the flame aerosol reactor. Nearly monodisperse nanoparticles (geometric standard deviation less than 1.05) could be collected in sufficient mass quantities (of the order of 10 mg) in reasonable time (1 h) that could be used in other studies such as determination of functionality or biological effects as a function of size.


PACS

81.16.-c Methods of nanofabrication and processing

61.46.Df Structure of nanocrystals and nanoparticles ("colloidal" quantum dots but not gate-isolated embedded quantum dots)

81.20.Rg Aerosols in materials synthesis and processing

68.37.Hk Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) (including EBIC)

Subjects

Surfaces, interfaces and thin films

Condensed matter: structural, mechanical & thermal

Nanoscale science and low-D systems

Dates

Issue 28 (18 July 2007)

Received 8 February 2007, in final form 16 May 2007

Published 15 June 2007



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