scholarly journals Characterization of Commercial Metal Oxide Nanomaterials: Crystalline Phase, Particle Size and Specific Surface Area

Nanomaterials ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  
pp. 1812
Author(s):  
Michael Bushell ◽  
Suzanne Beauchemin ◽  
Filip Kunc ◽  
David Gardner ◽  
Jeffrey Ovens ◽  
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Physical chemical characterization of nanomaterials is critical to assessing quality control during production, evaluating the impact of material properties on human health and the environment, and developing regulatory frameworks for their use. We have investigated a set of 29 nanomaterials from four metal oxide families (aluminum, copper, titanium and zinc) with a focus on the measurands that are important for the basic characterization of dry nanomaterials and the determination of the dose metrics for nanotoxicology. These include crystalline phase and crystallite size, measured by powder X-ray diffraction, particle shape and size distributions from transmission electron microscopy, and specific surface area, measured by gas adsorption. The results are compared to the nominal data provided by the manufacturer, where available. While the crystalline phase data are generally reliable, data on minor components that may impact toxicity is often lacking. The crystal and particle size data highlight the issues in obtaining size measurements of materials with broad size distributions and significant levels of aggregation, and indicate that reliance on nominal values provided by the manufacturer is frequently inadequate for toxicological studies aimed at identifying differences between nanoforms. The data will be used for the development of models and strategies for grouping and read-across to support regulatory human health and environmental assessments of metal oxide nanomaterials.

2021 ◽  
Vol 316 ◽  
pp. 689-693
Author(s):  
K.D. Naumov ◽  
V.G. Lobanov

The aim of this paper is to establish a regulatory change of zinc powders key physicochemical properties with varying electroextraction conditions. It was studied influence zinc concentration, alkali concentration and current density. Quantitative dependencies of zinc powders particle size and specific surface area from mentioned electroextraction parameters are shown. At increasing of zinc concentration, decreasing of NaOH concentration and decreasing of current density of powders particle size growth, correspondingly specific surface area is declined. It is indicated, that electrolytic zinc powders bulk density varies from 0.61 g/cm3 to 0.75 g/cm3 with a decrease of average particle size from 121 μm to 68 μm. In comparison, spherical powders bulk density used in various industries is currently 2.45-2.6 g/cm3. In all experiments, metal zinc content varied in the range of 91.1-92.5%, the rest - ZnO. To a greater extent, this indicator depends on powder washing quality from alkali and storage conditions.


Author(s):  
E. A. Burakova ◽  
G. S. Besperstova ◽  
M. A. Neverova ◽  
A. G. Tkachev ◽  
N. V. Orlova ◽  
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In this paper, the features of obtaining a Co-Mo/Al2O3 catalyst to synthesize carbon nanotubes (CNTs) by thermal decomposition were studied. It was revealed that the duration of the pre-catalyst thermal decomposition stage in the process of developing a metal oxide system has a significant impact on its activity in the synthesis of carbon nanostructured materials by chemical vapor deposition (CVD). It was proved that an effective catalyst for CNTs synthesis can be obtained by through thermal decomposition of the pre – catalyst, without calcination of the metal oxide system. The use of the Co-Mo/Al2O3 catalyst, synthesized in such a way, in the CVD process makes it possible to reduce the cost of synthesized CNTs. Using scanning electron microscopy, it was shown that the size of the grains, and specific surface area of the formed Co-Mo/Al2O3 catalyst depend on the thermal treatment conditions of the pre-catalyst. Under the conditions for the implementation of the pre-catalyst thermal decomposition stage (temperature, volume, duration, etc.), it is possible to contro not only the characteristics of the resulting catalyst (specific surface area, efficiency), but also the characteristics of the CNTs (diameter, degree of defectiveness). In the course of experiments, the optimal modes of implementation of the method for obtaining the Co-Mo/Al2O3 catalyst allowed forming a system with a specific surface area of ~ 108 m2/g. The use of the resulting catalyst in the synthesis of nanostructured materials provides a high specific yield of multi-walled CNTs with a diameter of 8-20 nm and a degree of defectiveness of 0.97.


2011 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 25
Author(s):  
Anirut Leksomboon ◽  
Bunjerd Jongsomjit

In this present study, the spherical silica support was synthesized from tetraethyloxysilane (TEOS), water, sodium hydroxide, ethylene glycol and n-dodecyltrimethyl ammonium bromide (C12TMABr). The particle size was controlled by variation of the ethylene glycol co-solvent weight ratio of a sol-gel method preparation in the range of 0.10 to 0.50. In addition, the particle size apparently increases with high weight ratio of co-solvent, but the particle size distribution was broader. The standard deviation of particle diameter is large when the co-solvent weight ratio is more than 0.35 and less than 0.15. However, the specific surface area was similar for all weight ratios ranging from 1000 to 1300 m2/g. The synthesized silica was spherical and has high specific surface area. The cobalt was impregnated onto the obtained silica to produce the cobalt catalyst used for CO2 hydrogenation.</


2005 ◽  
Vol 284-286 ◽  
pp. 365-368 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yin Zhang ◽  
Yoshiyuki Yokogawa ◽  
Tetsuya Kameyama

The effect of different particle sizes on the flexural strength and microstructure of three different types of hydroxyapatite (HAp) powders was studied. The powder characteristics of laboratory synthesized HAp powder (Lab1 and Lab2) were obtained through a wet milling method, and the median particle size and the specific surface area of powders are different with the dryness period. The median particle sizes of Lab1 and Lab2 are 0.34 µm and 0.74 µm, and the specific surface areas of Lab1 and Lab2 are 38.01 m2/g and 19.77 m2/g. The commercial HAp had median particle size of 1.13 µm and specific surface area of 11.62m2/g. The different powder characteristics affected the slip characteristics, and the flexural strength and microstructure of the sintered porous HAp bodies are also different. The optimum value for the minimum viscosity in these present HAp slip with respect to its solid loading and the optimum amount of the deflocculant were investigated. The flexural strengths of the porous HAp ceramics prepared by heating at 1200°C for 3 hrs in air were 17.59 MPa for Lab1 with a porosity of 60.48%, 10.51 MPa for Lab2 with a porosity of 57.75%, and 3.92 MPa for commercial HAp with a porosity of 79.37%.


2011 ◽  
Vol 412 ◽  
pp. 365-369
Author(s):  
Yuan Feng Huang ◽  
Wei Jun Zhang ◽  
Li Shen ◽  
Jin Hu ◽  
Zhuo Heng Li ◽  
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A series of Ba-Al-O NSR supports and Pt/Ba-Al-O NSR catalysts are prepared by co-precipitation and impregnation method in this work. The catalyst and the support are characterized by XRD, SEM, SBET performance testing. The structure and texture of the supports is observed and discussed. The results of SBET indicate that the supports possess relative high specific surface area (94~110 m2/g). Temperature programmed reduction is characterized by means of H2-TPR.


2012 ◽  
Vol 512-515 ◽  
pp. 2434-2438
Author(s):  
Quan Xiao Liu ◽  
Wen Cai Xu

In this paper the comparison among some papermaking powder properties are studied. It shows that the properties of different powders are different because of different chemical composition and different preparation method and their particle size is different for different purpose such as filler and pigment. The particle size of powder for pigment powder is smaller than that for filler. The specific surface area of papermaking filler is lower than 20m2/g, the absorption value of DBP is about 45cm3/100g, the whiteness is up to 90%, and the particle size is about 3µm. The specific surface area of papermaking pigment is lower than 25m2/g, the absorption value of DBP is from 40 cm3/100g to100cm3/100g, the whiteness of clay is up to 50%, the whiteness of GCC and PCC is up to 90%, and the particle size is lower than 2µm. The specific surface area of silica is up to 100m2/g, the absorption value of DBP is up to 100cm3/100g, the whiteness is up to 97%, and the particle size is around 5µm.


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