Synthesis nucleation

Reactions, enzymatic catalysis, separations, materials synthesis Reactions, enzymatic catalysis, separations, materials synthesis Nucleation and growth of particles... 

Pd nanospheres (1-3 nm) were reported by Teranishi et al. upon reduction of PdCl " precursor in alcoholic environment in the presence of PVP [163]. Xia and coworkers gave a fundamental contribution in detailing the shape-controlled synthesis of metal NCs and particularly in the case of Pd [34]. Based on experimental results they discussed the thermodynamic and kinetic pathways occurring at the synthesis nucleation stage monitoring a series of experimental parameters which can force the system in one direction or the other (see Fig. 10.1b). They could predict and experimentally verify all the possible Pd shapes as cuboctahedrons [164], nanocubes, bars and rods [18, 165], right bipyramids [166] and nanoplates [36]. 

Crystal Morphology. Size, shape, color, and impurities are dependent on the conditions of synthesis (14—17). Lower temperatures favor dark colored, less pure crystals higher temperatures promote paler, purer crystals. Low pressures (5 GPa) and temperatures favor the development of cube faces, whereas higher pressures and temperatures produce octahedral faces. Nucleation and growth rates increase rapidly as the process pressure is raised above the diamond—graphite equiUbrium pressure. 

Sol-Gel Techniques. Sol-gel powders (2,13,15,17) are produced as a suspension or sol of coUoidal particles or polymer molecules mixed with a Hquid that polymerizes to form a gel (see Colloids SoL-GELtechnology). Typically, formation of a sol is foUowed by hydrolysis, polymerization, nucleation, and growth. Drying, low temperature calciaation, and light milling are subsequently required to produce a powder. Sol-gel synthesis yields fine, reactive, pseudo-crystalline powders that can be siatered at temperatures hundreds of degrees below conventionally prepared, crystalline powders. 

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Our group has recently observed (ref. 10) that often synthesis time of zeolites can be substantially shortened when microwave radiation is applied instead of conventional heating. Table 3 gives some examples. Also a narrow crystal size distribution is obtained in this way. The crystallization temperature is rapidly (1 min) reached by microwave heating, this may be a factor in homogeneous and essentially simultaneous nucleation. 

Polymer supported xanthene derivatives have been used in the solid phase synthesis of 1-aminophosphinic acids, RCH(NH2)PH(0)0H, <%TL1647> and of C-terminal peptide amides <96JOC6326>. Xanthene units also feature in crown ethers <96JCS(P2)2091>, calixarenes <96JOC5670> and in a flexible template for a P-sheet nucleator <96JOC7408>. 

A little more than half the cholesterol of the body arises by synthesis (about 700 mg/d), and the remainder is provided by the average diet. The liver and intestine account for approximately 10% each of total synthesis in humans. Virtually all tissues containing nucleated cells are capable of cholesterol synthesis, which occurs in the endoplasmic reticulum and the cytosol. 

Scheme 1 Illustration of the general synthetic method followed in our group for the synthesis of metal nanoparticles i decomposition of the precimsor, nucleation ii first growth process in ripening or coalescence leading to size and shape controlled objects through addition of stabilizers which prevent the full precipitation of the metal (iv)...

Turkevich, J., Stevenson, P.C. and Hillier, J. (1951) A study of the nucleation and growth processes in the synthesis of colloidal gold. Discussions of the Faraday Society, 11, 55-75. 

The basic principle of chemical synthesis of nanoparticles is to initiate chemical reactions and control the nu-cleation and growth of the reaction products. In order to achieve monodispersity, LaMer has shown that the separation of the nucleation stage from the growth stage is an important factor to be considered (Figure 1). 

The preparation of ZnSe materials is an area of interest and study. The coordinating ability of the solvent used in the solvothermal synthesis of zinc selenide was demonstrated to play an important role in the nucleation and growth of nanocrystalline ZnSe.604 Thermolysis of bis [methyl( -hexyl)di-seleno]carbamato]zinc gave highly monodispersed particles characterized by electronic spectroscopy, photoluminescence, X-ray diffraction, and electron microscopy.605... 

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