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Nano Research 2023, 16(4): 5850-5856 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-022-5115-7
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One droplet reaction for synthesis of multi-sized nanoparticles

Show Author's Information Bingda Chen1,2,§,  Feifei Qin3,§,  Meng Su1,2( ),  Daixi Xie1,2,  Zeying Zhang1,  Qi Pan1,  Huadong Wang1,2,  Xu Yang1,2,  Sisi Chen1,2,  Jingwei Huang3,  Dominique Derome4,  Jan Carmeliet3,  Yanlin Song1,2( )
Key Laboratory of Green Printing, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing Engineering Research Center of Nanomaterials for Green Printing Technology, Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), Beijing 100190, China
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
Chair of Building Physics, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zürich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich), Zürich 8092, Switzerland
Department of Civil and Building Engineering, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke QC J1K 2R1, Canada

§ Bingda Chen and Feifei Qin contributed equally to this work.

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gas–liquid interface, accumulation effect, one droplet reaction, multi-sized nanoparticles
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Chen B, Qin F, Su M, et al. One droplet reaction for synthesis of multi-sized nanoparticles. Nano Research, 2023, 16(4): 5850-5856. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-022-5115-7
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Reaction kinetics of nanoparticles can be controlled by tuning the Peclet number (Pe) as it is an essential parameter in synthesis of multi-sized nanoparticles. Herein, we propose to implement a self-driven multi-dimension microchannels reactor (MMR) for the one droplet synthesis of multi-sized nanoparticles. By carefully controlling the Pe at the gas–liquid interface, the newly formed seed crystals selectively accumulate and grow to a specific size. By the combination of microchannels of different widths and lengths, one droplet reaction in the same apparatus achieves the synchronous synthesis of diverse nanoparticles. MMR enables precise control of nanoparticle diameter at 5 nm precision in the range of 10–110 nm. The use of MMR can be extended to the synthesis of uniform Ag, Au, Pt, and Pd nanoparticles, opening towards the production and engineering of nanostructured materials. This approach gives the chance to regulate the accumulation probability for precise synthesis of nanoparticles with different diameters.


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One droplet reaction for synthesis of multi-sized nanoparticles

Show Author's information Bingda Chen1,2,§, Feifei Qin3,§, Meng Su1,2( ), Daixi Xie1,2, Zeying Zhang1, Qi Pan1, Huadong Wang1,2, Xu Yang1,2, Sisi Chen1,2, Jingwei Huang3, Dominique Derome4, Jan Carmeliet3, Yanlin Song1,2( )
Key Laboratory of Green Printing, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing Engineering Research Center of Nanomaterials for Green Printing Technology, Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), Beijing 100190, China
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
Chair of Building Physics, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zürich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich), Zürich 8092, Switzerland
Department of Civil and Building Engineering, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke QC J1K 2R1, Canada

§ Bingda Chen and Feifei Qin contributed equally to this work.

Abstract

Reaction kinetics of nanoparticles can be controlled by tuning the Peclet number (Pe) as it is an essential parameter in synthesis of multi-sized nanoparticles. Herein, we propose to implement a self-driven multi-dimension microchannels reactor (MMR) for the one droplet synthesis of multi-sized nanoparticles. By carefully controlling the Pe at the gas–liquid interface, the newly formed seed crystals selectively accumulate and grow to a specific size. By the combination of microchannels of different widths and lengths, one droplet reaction in the same apparatus achieves the synchronous synthesis of diverse nanoparticles. MMR enables precise control of nanoparticle diameter at 5 nm precision in the range of 10–110 nm. The use of MMR can be extended to the synthesis of uniform Ag, Au, Pt, and Pd nanoparticles, opening towards the production and engineering of nanostructured materials. This approach gives the chance to regulate the accumulation probability for precise synthesis of nanoparticles with different diameters.

Keywords: gas–liquid interface, accumulation effect, one droplet reaction, multi-sized nanoparticles

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Received: 02 July 2022
Revised: 27 September 2022
Accepted: 28 September 2022
Published: 02 November 2022
Issue date: April 2023

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Acknowledgements

This work was financially supported by the Beijing Nova Program from Beijing Municipal Science & Technology Commission (Nos. Z201100006820037 and Z211100002121001), the National Key R&D Program of China (No. 2018YFA0208501), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 22075296, 91963212, and 51961145102), the Youth Innovation Promotion Association, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (No. 2020032), and Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (No. BNLMS-CXXM-202005). F. F. Q. and J. C. acknowledge the Swiss National Super Computing Center (Project No. s1081) for providing the computing support. B. D. C. acknowledges Jiarong Yang for his support in graphing.

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