A Contiunuous and Fully Scalable Interfacial Reactor for Nanoparticle Production

这个学科跳跃项目是基于两位学者的共同兴趣提出的，受到最近EPSRC旨在连接化学工程和化学的事件的刺激，并强烈希望建立临界质量，以开发一种新的连续的、完全可扩展的界面反应器，用于生产高附加值的纳米颗粒产品。这些材料在电子、精细化工、催化、化妆品、制药、保健和医药等各个工业领域具有潜在的应用前景。其目的是建立一个实质性的长期合作，桥梁化学-化学工程界面，这将具有泵启动学术和工业相关的新研究领域的增值效应。该项目关注的是一种通过界面模板连续生产纳米颗粒的新型反应体系，以及该体系的进一步大规模生产。该研究建立在申请人在反应器设计，界面物理，界面化学，氧化还原过程，纳米颗粒表征，流体力学和多相输运现象方面的互补专业知识的基础上。它将使一个完全可扩展的反应系统的初步设计和初步实验系统。这两位学者各自建立了活跃且蓬勃发展的研究小组：他们热衷于利用EPSRC计划作为跳板，探索其研究的更广泛应用。这个项目将使他们能够实现他们在这个方向上的雄心壮志，并深入了解其他参与者学科的最新技术。

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.