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Recent developments in mechanochemical nanoparticle synthesis

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posted on 2002-01-01, 00:00 authored by P McCormick, Takuya Tsuzuki
The results of recent investigations of the mechanochemical synthesis of CaC03, Cr203 and Nb205 nanopowders are reported. With all three materials studied, it is shown that the volume fraction of the matrix phase is crucial to the formation of separate, unagglomerated particles. With Cr203 and Nb205, amorphous particles were formed by mechanochemical reaction and low temperature heat treatment was required for crystallization. It is shown that, as a 'bottom up' process, mechanochemical processing enables the building up nanoparticles through solid-state chemical reaction in a microscopically uniform environment, leading to the formation of nanoparticles with narrow size distributions.

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Journal

Materials science forum

Volume

386 - 388

Pagination

377 - 386

Publisher

Trans Tech Publications Ltd.

Location

Stafa-Zurich, Switzerland

ISSN

0255-5476

Language

eng

Publication classification

C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Copyright notice

2002,Trans Tech Publications

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