STTR Phase I: A Simple and Innovative Approach to the Synthesis of Metal, Alloy, Metal Oxide, and Mixed-Metal Oxide Nanoparticles

小企业技术转移研究（STTR）第一阶段项目致力于将一种新型的大学实验室固态合成金属氧化物和金属纳米颗粒的方法扩大到公斤数量，该方法通过混合常见的化学起始材料并在适当温度下烘烤所得的前体材料；以及用于商业应用的松散凝聚颗粒的分散。该合成方法具有成本低、环境友好、材料质量高的特点。商业应用包括耐磨、紫外线辐射和热防护涂层。由于它们的体积小，结晶度高，纯度高，作为催化剂的应用正在探索中。此外，由于它们的结晶性，颗粒保留了大块材料的特性（例如磁性），这可以用于各种各样的应用，如医学成像造影剂和电子存储器。金属氧化物或金属纳米颗粒可以由任何过渡金属、锕系元素或镧系元素制成，也可以掺杂I族和II族金属，它们可以用任何数量的这些金属以任何化学计量比的任何组合制成，因此这些无限的新组合物在燃料电池、电池、催化剂等方面有着独特的应用。

The Small Business Technology Transfer Research (STTR) Phase I project addresses the scale-up to kilogram quantities of a novel university laboratory solid-state method of synthesizing metal oxide and metal nanoparticles by mixing common chemical starting materials and baking the resulting precursor material at modest temperatures; and the dispersment of the loosely agglomerated particles for commercial applications. The synthetic method will be, low cost, environmentally friendly and will yield high quality materials. Commercial applications include coatings for abrasion, ultraviolet radiation and heat protection. Because of their small size, high crystallinity and purity, applications as catalysts are being explored. Also, because of their crystallinity, the particles retain the properties (e.g., magnetism) of the bulk material which can be useful for applications as diverse as medical imaging contrast agents and electronic memory. Metal oxide or metal nanoparticles can be made of any transition metal, actinide or lanthanide which can also be doped with metals from Groups I and II, and they can be made with any combination of any number of these metals in any stoichiometric ratio, hence these limitless new compositions are finding unique applications in fuel cells, batteries, catalysts, etc.