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- Title
Overview of the Application of Flow Microreactors in the Synthesis of Silver Nanomaterials.
- Authors
He, Xiaoai; Lu, Aijuan; Cheng, Jin; Chen, Junfang; Song, Qianhui; Liu, Wenfang; Chen, Chuanpin
- Abstract
The unique electrical, optical and biological properties of silver nanomaterials have attracted significant attention of many researchers. Since the size and shape of silver nanomaterials have significant effects on the properties of silver nanomaterials, extensive research has focused on synthesis and characterization of silver nanomaterials. However, almost all of the syntheses of silver nanomaterials were carried out in traditional batch reactors, which typically suffer from inhomogeneous mixing and corresponding spatial variations under reaction conditions, ultimately leading to poor quality of the final nanomaterials. Recently, the emerging microfluidic technology not only furnishes novel strategies for the synthesis of silver nanomaterials but also brings great opportunities and impetus to improve the quality and yield of silver nanomaterials due to enhanced mass and heat transfer. The current paper reviews recent achievements in the synthesis of silver nanomaterials in flow microreactors. Various strategies adopted for the synthesis of silver nanomaterials in microreactors are presented and compared, including synthesis in single-phase and multi-phase flow microreactors. In addition, the factors that affect the size and size distribution of silver nanomaterials in flow microreactors synthesis are also discussed briefly. This review article presents a comprehensive summary of the method of synthesizing silver nanomaterials in different microfluidic reactors proposed in the last two decades, and provides some analysis of the advantages and disadvantages of the various methods. The factors that affect the size and size distribution of silver nanomaterials during the microfluidic synthesis process are also presented.
- Subjects
SILVER nanoparticles; NANOSTRUCTURED materials synthesis; MICROREACTORS; ELECTRIC properties of nanostructured materials; OPTICAL properties; INHOMOGENEOUS materials
- Publication
NANO, 2017, Vol 12, Issue 11, p-1
- ISSN
1793-2920
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1142/S179329201730002X