Flame-based Synthesis of multicomponent metallic nanomaterials

Flame technology is the most widely used technique to manufacture commercial nanoparticles and encompasses the major portion by value and volume of nanoparticles made in the gas phase. A flame-driven High Temperature Reducing Jet (HTRJ) reactor has been developed in our group that allows continuous one-step gas-phase (aerosol) synthesis of metal nanoparticles from metal salt precursors. The key advantage of the HTRJ system over common flame-based aerosol synthesis methods is the separation of flame chemistry from particle formation chemistry which allows synthesis of non-oxide metal nanoparticles that can be reduced by H2 in the presence of H2O. Over the past years, we have made a group of multicomponent transition metal nanomaterials including Pd, Cu, Ag, Ni in the forms of nanopowders, films and nanoparticle inks. The nanomaterials are used for a variety of applications.

Publications : 

Mohammadi, Mohammad Moein, et al. "Single-Step Flame Aerosol Synthesis of Active and Stable Nanocatalysts for the Dry Reforming of Methane." ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces (2021). 

Liu, Shuo, Mohammad Moein Mohammadi, and Mark T. Swihart. "Fundamentals and Recent Applications of Catalyst Synthesis Using Flame Aerosol Technology." Chemical Engineering Journal (2020): 126958. 

Mohammadi, Mohammad Moein, et al. "Hydrogen Sensing at Room Temperature Using Flame-synthesized Palladium-decorated Crumpled Reduced Graphene Oxide Nanocomposites." ACS sensors (2020). 

Mohammadi, Mohammad Moein, et al. "Flame-synthesized nickel-silver nanoparticle inks provide high conductivity without sintering." Chemical Engineering Journal 372 (2019): 648-655. 

Mohammadi, Mohammad Moein, et al. "A general approach to multicomponent metal-decorated crumpled reduced graphene oxide nanocomposites using a flame-based process." Nanoscale 11.41 (2019): 19571-19578. 

Konda, Shailesh, et al. "Flame‐based synthesis and in situ functionalization of palladium alloy nanoparticles." AIChE Journal 64.11 (2018): 3826-3834.