Adjustment and Online Determination of Primary Particle Size in Transferred Arc Synthesis of Copper Nanoparticles

作者:Stein Matthias*; Kiesler Dennis; Kruis Frank Einar
来源:Aerosol Science and Technology, 2013, 47(11): 1276-1284.
DOI:10.1080/02786826.2013.835484

摘要

Scaling up metal nanoparticle production is a desired goal of much research, the need of the industry due to the growing market of applications increases significantly. However, a scale up of production rate often leads to an increase in particle size and a broadening of size distribution. Particle characterization in terms of size is mostly done after synthesis. In this work, a transferred arc process is optimized to increase the production rate of pure copper nanoparticles economically. The maximum production rate for different particle sizes is determined by TEOM measurements. While the influence of different carrier gases has been investigated before, different mixtures of nitrogen and argon as carrier gas are used to manipulate the primary particle size. Primary particle size determination is performed by a novel analysis method based on parallel online ELPI and SMPS measurement. An equation is found to calculate the mass mobility exponent directly on the basis of the effective density of an agglomerate. Hence, the method is suitable for determining the primary particle sizes directly online.

  • 出版日期2013-11-1