Nanoparticles Phase

I. Nukatsuka, S. Osanai, K. Ohzeki, Preparation of open tubular solid-phase extraction column with 5-amino-8-hydroxyquinoline-modified gold nanoparticle phase for the enrichment of heavy metal ions, Anal. Sci. 24 (2008) 267. 

Barnard AS, Curtiss LA (2005) Prediction of TiOj nanoparticle phase and shape transitions controlled by surface chemistry. Nano Lett 5 1261—1266... 

Nanoparticles phase transfer behaviors at the oil—water interface have many in common with fipid bilayer crossing behavior and the Pickering emulsion formation. The phase transfer behavior and interfacial behavior are intuitive indicators for the application potential of nanoparticle materials. Polymer brush modification enables nanoparticles to behave differendy in hydrophilic solvent, hydrophobic solvent, and their interface region. 

The consequence of UV irradiation is the progressive decrease in the polyethylene viscosity [58]. This essential element must be correlated with the modification of diffusion property of polymer, by which the degradation is significantly accelerated. The type of nanofiller (multi-waUed carbon nanotubes, fumed silica, neat Cloisite and modified Cloisite) influences differently the behavior of pristine HDPE [59]. The increase order of tensile strength measured at Yield point places the contribution of studied nanoparticle phases for the first 100 h of UV exposure describes promotion of a crosslinking process involving the radicals formed by photolysis. 

Keywords Nanoparticles Phase separation Polymeric architecture Reversible-deactivation radical polymerization Self-assembly... 

Mold filling experiments for novel hybrid long fiber and nanoparticle composites were eonducted and the efifeet of nanoparticle phase on the fill times was studied. The presenee of CNFs on the GF mats may decrease the porosity and permeability, and thus increase the mold filling time. A simplified model to prediet the filling time for 0 wt.%, 3.5 wt.%, and 5 wt.% was used to obtain the ealeulated values of the flow front length. These values were eompared with experimental date of the flow front length. The two agreed reasonably well. 

Cluster research is a very interdisciplinary activity. Teclmiques and concepts from several other fields have been applied to clusters, such as atomic and condensed matter physics, chemistry, materials science, surface science and even nuclear physics. Wlrile the dividing line between clusters and nanoparticles is by no means well defined, typically, nanoparticles refer to species which are passivated and made in bulk fonn. In contrast, clusters refer to unstable species which are made and studied in the gas phase. Research into the latter is discussed in the current chapter. 

The definition above is a particularly restrictive description of a nanocrystal, and necessarily limits die focus of diis brief review to studies of nanocrystals which are of relevance to chemical physics. Many nanoparticles, particularly oxides, prepared dirough die sol-gel niediod are not included in diis discussion as dieir internal stmcture is amorjihous and hydrated. Neverdieless, diey are important nanoniaterials several textbooks deal widi dieir syndiesis and properties [4, 5]. The material science community has also contributed to die general area of nanocrystals however, for most of dieir applications it is not necessary to prepare fully isolated nanocrystals widi well defined surface chemistry. A good discussion of die goals and progress can be found in references [6, 7, 8 and 9]. Finally, diere is a rich history in gas-phase chemical physics of die study of clusters and size-dependent evaluations of dieir behaviour. This topic is not addressed here, but covered instead in chapter C1.1, Clusters and nanoscale stmctures, in diis same volume. 

Figure C2.17.8. Powder x-ray diffraction (PXRD) from amoriDhous and nanocry stalline Ti02 nanocrystals. Powder x-ray diffraction is an important test for nanocrystal quality. In the top panel, nanoparticles of titania provide no crystalline reflections. These samples, while showing some evidence of crystallinity in TEM, have a major amoriDhous component. A similar reaction, perfonned with a crystallizing agent at high temperature, provides well defined reflections which allow the anatase phase to be clearly identified.

The final section of the volume contains three complementary review articles on carbon nanoparticles. The first by Y. Saito reviews the state of knowledge about carbon cages encapsulating metal and carbide phases. The structure of onion-like graphite particles, the spherical analog of the cylindrical carbon nanotubes, is reviewed by D. Ugarte, the dominant researcher in this area. The volume concludes with a review of metal-coated fullerenes by T. P. Martin and co-workers, who pioneered studies on this topic. 

CNT capillarity was firstly discovered by heating a sample composed of tubes and lead nanoparticles in air, and TEM studies revealed that a few tubes presented some material inside their cavities [9J. Although fillings could present impressive length (100 nm) and diameters as small as 2 nm. The phase that had entered the tubes could not be clearly identified by the authors and they also speculated on the possible formation of new phases. 

For the preparation of nanoparticles based on two aqueous phases at room temperature one phase contains chitosan and poly(ethylene oxide) and the other contains sodium tripolyphosphate. The particle size (200-1000 nm) and zeta potential (between -i- 20 mV and -l- 60 mV) could be modulated by varying the ratio chitosan/PEO-PPO. These nanoparticles have great proteinloading capacity and provide continuous release of the entrapped protein (particularly insulin) for up to one week [100,101]. 

There is currently considerable interest in processing polymeric composite materials filled with nanosized rigid particles. This class of material called "nanocomposites" describes two-phase materials where one of the phases has at least one dimension lower than 100 nm [13]. Because the building blocks of nanocomposites are of nanoscale, they have an enormous interface area. Due to this there are a lot of interfaces between two intermixed phases compared to usual microcomposites. In addition to this, the mean distance between the particles is also smaller due to their small size which favors filler-filler interactions [14]. Nanomaterials not only include metallic, bimetallic and metal oxide but also polymeric nanoparticles as well as advanced materials like carbon nanotubes and dendrimers. However considering environmetal hazards, research has been focused on various means which form the basis of green nanotechnology. 

The results of the mechanical properties can be explained on the basis of morphology. The scanning electron micrographs (SEM) of fractured samples of biocomposites at 40 phr loading are shown in figure. 3. It can be seen that all the bionanofillers are well dispersed into polymer matrix without much agglomeration. This is due to the better compatibility between the modified polysaccharides nanoparticles and the NR matrix (Fig. 4A and B). While in case of unmodified polysaccharides nanoparticles the reduction in size compensates for the hydrophilic nature (Fig. 3C and D). In case of CB composites (Fig. 3E) relatively coarse, two-phase morphology is seen. 

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