SPONSORSHIP AWARD: An engineering network to address challenges in microreactor processing for scale up of nano-material synthesis

该项目结合了不同工程领域的专业知识，以应对当前主要的科学挑战之一：纳米颗粒的大规模生产，使其能够在药物输送，传感器，医疗保健和生物成像，催化，能量储存，水处理，纳米颗粒独特的化学和物理性质及其潜在应用的发现正在慢慢改变我们的世界然而，它们的大规模制造仍处于起步阶段，迫切需要能够连续生产纳米颗粒的制造技术，克服目前与尺寸控制和团聚相关的限制。在这个项目中，我们计划结合联合收割机在反应工程和催化（托伦特，巴斯），流体流量控制（夏尔马，南安普顿）和先进的材料表征（黑格，曼彻斯特）的经验。将不同的专业知识和研究兴趣结合起来，将使我们能够确定克服微反应器领域当前挑战的替代方法。

This project combines expertise in different areas of engineering towards one of the main current scientific challenges: the large-scale production of nanoparticles to enable their implementation in areas of drug delivery, sensors, healthcare and bio-imaging, catalysis, energy storage, water treatment, etc.The discovery of the unique chemical and physical properties of particles with nanometre sizes and their potential applications is slowly transforming our world. However, their large-scale manufacturing is still in its infancy with an urgent need for a manufacturing technology capable of the continuous production of nanoparticles, overcoming the current limitations associated with size control and agglomeration. In this project we plan to combine experience in reaction engineering and catalysis (Torrente, Bath), fluid flow control (Sharma, Southampton) and advanced materials characterization (Haigh, Manchester). Uniting different expertise and research interests will enable us to identify alternative approaches to overcoming current challenges in the micro-reactor field.