Issue 12, 2007
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Lab on a Chip

Continuous flow nano-technology: manipulating the size, shape, agglomeration, defects and phases of silver nano-particles†‡

K. Swaminathan Iyer,a   Colin L. Raston*a  and  Martin Saundersb  

* Corresponding authors

a Centre for Strategic Nano-fabrication, School of Biomedical, Biomolecular and Chemical Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, Australia
E-mail: clraston@chem.uwa.edu.au

b Centre for Microscopy, Characterisation and Analysis, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, Australia

Abstract

Spinning disc processing (SDP) is an instantaneously scalable, continuous flow and high throughput flash nano-fabrication technology which embraces green chemistry metrics. It has been used to prepare silver nano-particles with remarkable control in size (5–200 nm), shape (spheroidal, acicular or agglomerate rosettes), surface characteristics, and phase (cubic versus hexagonal), along with imparting defects for particles >10 nm diameters. The control is associated with changing the nature of the stabilising surfactant (respectively, starch, polyethylene glycol and poly(4-vinylpyridine)), the concentration of the reactants, and flow rates.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/B709524D
Article type
Paper
Submitted
22 Jun 2007
Accepted
28 Aug 2007
First published
19 Sep 2007

Lab Chip, 2007,7, 1800-1805

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K. S. Iyer, C. L. Raston and M. Saunders, Lab Chip, 2007, 7, 1800 DOI: 10.1039/B709524D

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