Flame aerosol synthesis of nanostructured materials and functional devices: Processing, modeling, and diagnostics

S Li, Y Ren, P Biswas, DT Stephen - Progress in Energy and Combustion …, 2016‏ - Elsevier
Manufacturing of nanostructured materials and functional devices offers many exciting
opportunities for substantial contribution in renewable energy utilization, environmental …

[HTML][HTML] A review of experimental techniques for aerosol hygroscopicity studies

M Tang, CK Chan, YJ Li, H Su, Q Ma… - Atmospheric …, 2019‏ - acp.copernicus.org
Hygroscopicity is one of the most important physicochemical properties of aerosol particles
and also plays indispensable roles in many other scientific and technical fields. A myriad of …

Double-side active TiO2-modified nanofiltration membranes in continuous flow photocatalytic reactors for effective water purification

GE Romanos, CP Athanasekou, FK Katsaros… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2012‏ - Elsevier
A chemical vapour deposition (CVD) based innovative approach was applied with the
purpose to develop composite TiO2 photocatalytic nanofiltration (NF) membranes. The …

Novel low-intensity phase-selective laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy of TiO2 nanoparticle aerosols during flame synthesis

Y Zhang, G **ong, S Li, Z Dong, SG Buckley… - Combustion and …, 2013‏ - Elsevier
Novel low-intensity laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) is employed to conduct
an in situ study on swirl flame synthesis of TiO2 nanoparticles. Collected emissions agree …

Laser-based diagnostics in the gas-phase synthesis of inorganic nanoparticles

T Dreier, C Schulz - Powder Technology, 2016‏ - Elsevier
As gas-phase methods for the synthesis of tailored nanomaterials become increasingly
sophisticated, the need for in situ diagnostics of reaction conditions and particle properties …

Insights into the mechanism of combustion synthesis of iron oxide nanoparticles gained by laser diagnostics, mass spectrometry, and numerical simulations: a mini …

I Rahinov, J Sellmann, MR Lalanne, M Nanjaiah… - Energy & …, 2020‏ - ACS Publications
To fully master a scaled-up combustion synthesis of nanoparticles toward a wide library of
materials with tailored functionalities, a detailed understanding of the underlying kinetic …

Synthesis of TiO2 nanoparticles by premixed stagnation swirl flames

J Wang, S Li, W Yan, DT Stephen, Q Yao - Proceedings of the Combustion …, 2011‏ - Elsevier
A new turbulent, premixed, stagnation swirl flame (SSF) is used to synthesize titanium
dioxide (TiO2) nanopowders. Synthesis conditions under two flame modes, ie, burner-and …

A new diagnostic for volume fraction measurement of metal-oxide nanoparticles in flames using phase-selective laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy

Y Zhang, S Li, Y Ren, Q Yao, DT Stephen - Proceedings of the Combustion …, 2015‏ - Elsevier
A new diagnostic has been developed for measuring nanoparticle volume fraction by using
phase-selective laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) for TiO 2 nanoparticles …

A reactive force field molecular dynamics study on the inception mechanism of titanium tetraisopropoxide (TTIP) conversion to titanium clusters

D Hou, M Feng, J Wei, Y Wang, ACT van Duin… - Chemical Engineering …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
We performed ReaxFF reactive molecular dynamics simulations to investigate the inception
mechanism of TTIP precursor droplet conversion to Ti-containing clusters in 1000 K–2500 K …

Effects of temperature-time history on the flame synthesis of nanoparticles in a swirl-stabilized tubular burner with two feeding modes

J Wei, Y Ren, Y Zhang, B Shi, S Li - Journal of Aerosol Science, 2019‏ - Elsevier
This work examines the effect of temperature-time history on the flame synthesis of titania
nanoparticles using a specially designed swirl-stabilized tubular burner with two kinds of …