Issue 7, 2023

Microreactor-based micro/nanomaterials: fabrication, advances, and outlook

Abstract

Micro/nanomaterials are widely used in optoelectronics, environmental materials, bioimaging, agricultural industries, and drug delivery owing to their marvelous features, such as quantum tunneling, size, surface and boundary, and Coulomb blockade effects. Recently, microreactor technology has opened up broad prospects for green and sustainable chemical synthesis as a powerful tool for process intensification and microscale manipulation. This review focuses on recent progress in the microreactor synthesis of micro/nanomaterials. First, the fabrication and design principles of existing microreactors for producing micro/nanomaterials are summarized and classified. Afterwards, typical examples are shown to demonstrate the fabrication of micro/nanomaterials, including metal nanoparticles, inorganic nonmetallic nanoparticles, organic nanoparticles, Janus particles, and MOFs. Finally, the future research prospects and key issues of microreactor-based micro/nanomaterials are discussed. In short, microreactors provide new ideas and methods for the synthesis of micro/nanomaterials, which have huge potential and inestimable possibilities in large-scale production and scientific research.

Graphical abstract: Microreactor-based micro/nanomaterials: fabrication, advances, and outlook

Article information

Article type
Review Article
Submitted
04 mar 2023
Accepted
14 apr 2023
First published
04 may 2023

Mater. Horiz., 2023,10, 2343-2372

Microreactor-based micro/nanomaterials: fabrication, advances, and outlook

J. Ran, X. Wang, Y. Liu, S. Yin, S. Li and L. Zhang, Mater. Horiz., 2023, 10, 2343 DOI: 10.1039/D3MH00329A

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