SBIR Phase I: An Economical Process for Manufacture of Nano-Sized Inorganic Powders Based on Microemulsion-MediatedSynthesis

SBIR 第一阶段：基于微乳液介导合成的经济的纳米无机粉末制造工艺

• 批准号: 9660026
• 负责人: Richard Higgins
• 金额: $ 7.5万
• 依托单位: CeraMem Corporation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1997
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1997-01-01 至 1997-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9660026&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; Economical; Process; Manufacture

*** 96-60026 Higgins This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project will explore a novel process for economical synthesis of inorganic nanoparticles via microemulsion synthesis, which can be scaled readily to industrial-scale production. There are many methods for creation of nano-sized particles, but most synthetic techniques for nanoparticle production have rather limited potential for scale-up to manufacturing scale due to high capital costs, intrinsically low production rates, need for exotic/expensive precursor materials, limited applicability to many chemical compositions, and/or inadequate control over nanoparticle chemical and physical homogeneity. Phase I will study the use of water-in-oil microemulsions as "nano-reactors," a technique which has been used at a bench-scale to prepare nanoparticles in a number of chemical compositions using inexpensive equipment and precursors. This method of nanoparticle synthesis is thought to be free of the above limitations and to avoid a need in nanopowder manufacture to separate and recycle most of the microemulsion components for re-use. Commercial application of this process is expected to enhance production of inorganic nanoparticles for use in catalysis, structural materials, and microelectronic, photonic, and optical devices. ***

* 96-60026 希金斯 这个小企业创新研究（SBIR）第一阶段项目将探索一种通过微乳液合成经济合成无机纳米粒子的新工艺，该工艺可以很容易地扩展到工业规模生产。 存在许多用于产生纳米尺寸的颗粒的方法，但是用于纳米颗粒生产的大多数合成技术由于高资本成本、固有的低生产率、对外来/昂贵的前体材料的需要、对许多化学组合物的有限适用性和/或对纳米颗粒化学和物理均匀性的不充分控制而具有相当有限的扩大到制造规模的潜力。 第一阶段将研究使用油包水微乳液作为“纳米反应器”，这是一种在实验室规模上使用廉价设备和前体制备多种化学成分的纳米颗粒的技术。 这种纳米颗粒合成方法被认为不受上述限制，并且避免了在纳米粉末制造中分离和回收大部分微乳液组分以重新使用的需要。 该工艺的商业应用有望提高用于催化、结构材料以及微电子、光子和光学器件的无机纳米颗粒的生产。 ***