title: Reaction engineering strategies for the production of inorganic nanomaterials.
abstract: The rapid expansion of nanotechnology requires scaled-up production rates to cope with increased nanomaterials demand. However, in many cases, the final uses of nanomaterials impose strict requisites on their physical and chemical characteristics including size, shape, chemical composition and type of functional groups on their surface. Frequently, additional features such as a limited degree of agglomeration are also demanded. These requisites represent a serious challenge to present-day synthesis methods when nanomaterials must be produced in large amounts. Some of the possible solutions from the reaction engineering perspective are discussed in this work for both gas and liquid phase production processes. Special attention will be devoted to enabling technologies, which allow the production of engineered nanoparticles with limited aggregation and with a good control on their nano-scale characteristics.
authors.affiliation: Aragon Institute of Nanoscience (INA) and Department of Chemical Engineering University of Zaragoza 50018 Zaragoza, Spain, Networking Research Center in Bioengineering Biomaterials and Nanomedicine (CIBER-BBN), E-50018, Zaragoza, Spain.
authors.forename: Victor
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Sebastian
authors.forename: Manuel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Arruebo
authors.forename: Jesus
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Santamaria
mesh_terms: D007287:Inorganic Chemicals / Q000138:chemical synthesis*; D049329:Nanostructures / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D036103:Nanotechnology / Q000379:methods*; D011327:Printing
chemical_list: D007287:Inorganic Chemicals
keywords: inorganic nanoparticles; nanomaterial synthesis; reaction engineering; scaled-up production