Gold,silver, and palladium nanoparticle/nano-agglomerate generation,collection, and characterization |
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Authors: | Sunita R Boddu Veera R Gutti Tushar K Ghosh Robert V Tompson Sudarshan K Loyalka |
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Institution: | (1) Nuclear Science & Engineering Institute and Particulate Systems Research Center, University of Missouri, E2433 Lafferre Hall, Columbia, MO 65211, USA; |
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Abstract: | Generation, collection, and characterization of gold, silver, and palladium nanoparticles and nano-agglomerates (collectively
“nanoparticles”) have been explored. The nanoparticles were generated with a spark aerosol generator (Palas GFG-1000). They
were collected using a deposition cell under diffusion and thermophoresis. The shapes and sizes of the deposited particles
were measured using transmission electron microscopy (TEM). TEM images showed that the particles were in the range of 8–100 nm
in diameter, and their shapes varied from nearly spherical to highly non-spherical. Thermophoresis enhanced the deposition
of nanoparticles (over the diffusive or the isothermal deposition) in all cases. Further, the size distributions of the nanoparticles
generated in the gas phase (aerosol) were measured using a scanning mobility particle sizer (SMPS 3080, TSI) spectrometer.
The SMPS results show that an increase in the spark frequency of the generator shifted the size distributions of the nanoparticles
to larger diameters, and the total particle mass production rate increased linearly with increase in the spark frequency.
The computational fluid dynamics code Fluent (Ansys) was used to model the flow in the deposition cell, and the computed results
conform to the observations. |
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