A Contiunuous and Fully Scalable Interfacial Reactor for Nanoparticle Production

这一学科跳跃项目是在两位学者共同感兴趣的基础上提出的，受最近旨在连接化学工程和化学的EPSRC会议的刺激，强烈希望在开发一种新型的连续和完全可扩展的界面反应器以生产高附加值纳米颗粒产品方面建立临界质量。这些材料在电子、精细化工、催化、化妆品、制药、医疗保健和医药等各个工业部门都有潜在的应用。其目的是建立一种实质性的长期合作，架起化学-化学工程接口的桥梁，这将产生推动具有学术和工业相关性的新研究领域的增值效果。该项目致力于通过界面模板连续生产纳米粒子的新型反应系统，并进一步开发该系统用于大规模生产。该研究建立在申请者在反应堆设计、界面物理、界面化学、氧化还原过程、纳米颗粒表征、流体力学和多相传输现象方面的互补专业知识的基础上。这将使一个完全可扩展的反应系统的初步设计和系统的初步实验成为可能。两位学者分别建立了活跃和蓬勃发展的研究小组：他们热衷于探索他们的研究的更广泛应用，以EPSRC计划为跳板。这个项目将使他们能够实现他们在这个方向上的雄心，并深入了解其他参与者所在学科的最新水平。

This discipline hopping project is proposed on the basis of mutual interest of the two academics, stimulated by the recent EPSRC event aimed at interfacing Chemical Engineering and Chemistry, with a strong desire to build critical mass in developing a novel continuous and fully scalable interfacial reactor for producing high value-added nanoparticulate products. These materials have potential applications in various industrial sectors such as electronics, fine chemicals, catalysis, cosmetics, pharmaceutical, healthcare and medicine. The aim is to establish a substantial long term collaboration that bridges the chemistry-chemical engineering interface, which will have the value-added effect of pump-priming new areas of research of both academic and industrial relevance. The project is concerned about a novel reacting system for continuous production of nanoparticles through interfacial templating, and further development of the system for large scale production. The research builds upon the complementary expertise of the applicants in reactor design, interfacial physics, interfacial chemistry, redox processes, nanoparticle characterisation, fluid mechanics, and multiphase transport phenomena. It will enable initial design of a fully scalable reacting system and preliminary experiments on the system.The two academics have each established active and flourishing research groups: they are keen to explore the broader applications of their research, using this EPSRC scheme as a springboard. This project will enable them to realise their ambitions in this direction and to gain an in-depth understanding of the state-of-the-art in the other participant's discipline.