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

小型企业技术转移研究(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千克量，方法是混合常见的化学原料并在中等温度下焙烧得到的前驱体材料，以及将松散凝聚的颗粒分散用于商业应用。这种合成方法成本低、环境友好，并将产生高质量的材料。商业应用包括用于耐磨、紫外线辐射和防热的涂料。由于它们体积小、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，颗粒保留了块状材料的特性(例如，磁性)，这些特性可用于各种应用，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、榄系元素或稀土元素制成，也可以与I和II族金属掺杂，并且它们可以与任何数量的这些金属以任何化学计量比的任意组合制成，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.