Volume 50, Issue 46 pp. 10953-10956
Communication

Plasma-Assisted Dissociation of Organometallic Vapors for Continuous, Gas-Phase Preparation of Multimetallic Nanoparticles

Pin Ann Lin

Pin Ann Lin

Department of Chemical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, 10900 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44106-7217 (USA)

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Prof. R. Mohan Sankaran

Corresponding Author

Prof. R. Mohan Sankaran

Department of Chemical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, 10900 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44106-7217 (USA)

Department of Chemical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, 10900 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44106-7217 (USA)Search for more papers by this author
First published: 22 September 2011
Citations: 38

We acknowledge funding from the NSF CAREER Award Program (CBET-0746821). R.M.S. also thanks the AFOSR Young Investigator Program and the Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards Program for their support.

Graphical Abstract

Vapor-sized: In a plasma-based route to multimetallic nanoparticles (NPs), vapor mixtures of organometallic compounds are dissociated in an atmospheric-pressure microplasma (see picture). The size and composition of the particles is controlled by the relative vapor concentrations of the precursors.

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