화학공학소재연구정보센터
Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, Vol.42, No.22, 5535-5540, 2003
Formation of zinc oxide-titanium dioxide composite nanoparticles in supercritical water
Zinc oxide-titanium dioxide composite nanoparticles are prepared using a supercritical water reactor-in-series apparatus. Zinc oxide particles are produced from zinc acetate in the first reactor, and the particle suspension is fed to the second reactor where titanium oxide is formed from a titanium tetrachloride solution yielding ZnO-TiO2 composite nanoparticles. Reverse reactor order is also studied. Rapid and continuous production of nanosized composite particles is achieved in this reactor-in-series apparatus at 400 degreesC and 245 atm. Dynamic light scattering is used to determine the particle size, transmission electron microscopy is used to determine the particle morphology, and energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy is used to determine the composition.