TY - JOUR
T1 - Process intensification of dendritic fibrous nanospheres of silica (DFNS) via continuous flow
T2 - a scalable and sustainable alternative to the conventional batch synthesis
AU - Veeramani, Karuna
AU - Nayak, Nagaraj
AU - Cameron, Neil R.
AU - Kumar, Anil
N1 - Funding Information:
KV would like to express gratitude for the financial assistance offered in the form of a Scholarship from the IITB-Monash Joint PhD Research Program by the IITB-Monash Research Academy (Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay, Mumbai, India and Monash University, Australia). NN would like to thank IITB, Mumbai, India for a Post-Doctoral Fellowship. The authors also acknowledge the research laboratories and characterization facilities offered by the Department of Chemistry (IITB), Sophisticated Analytical Instruments Facility (SAIF), Industrial Research and Consultation Centre (IRCC), and National Centre for (NCPRE) and IITB-Monash Research Academy.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 The Royal Society of Chemistry.
PY - 2022/12/19
Y1 - 2022/12/19
N2 - In this manuscript, we report the scalable continuous flow synthesis of dendritic fibrous nanospheres of silica (DFNS) which have been speedily making a significant mark in the world of heterogeneous nanocatalysis for over a decade by virtue of their unique morphology. Further, this work also demonstrates the telescoping of the complete process intensification of this material through combination of scalable reactors like the spinning disk reactor and the dynamically agitated tubular reactor. This intensified synthetic protocol performed through continuous flow chemistry is a scalable, efficient, feasible, quicker, and sustainable route of synthesis. Interestingly, this protocol is generic and may be easily extrapolated to the process intensification of a wide range of similar hydrothermal biphasic nanoparticle systems, thus widening the horizons of controlled, intensified, and sustainable production of nanomaterials.
AB - In this manuscript, we report the scalable continuous flow synthesis of dendritic fibrous nanospheres of silica (DFNS) which have been speedily making a significant mark in the world of heterogeneous nanocatalysis for over a decade by virtue of their unique morphology. Further, this work also demonstrates the telescoping of the complete process intensification of this material through combination of scalable reactors like the spinning disk reactor and the dynamically agitated tubular reactor. This intensified synthetic protocol performed through continuous flow chemistry is a scalable, efficient, feasible, quicker, and sustainable route of synthesis. Interestingly, this protocol is generic and may be easily extrapolated to the process intensification of a wide range of similar hydrothermal biphasic nanoparticle systems, thus widening the horizons of controlled, intensified, and sustainable production of nanomaterials.
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U2 - 10.1039/D2RE00405D
DO - 10.1039/D2RE00405D
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85146126963
SN - 2058-9883
VL - 8
SP - 838
EP - 848
JO - Reaction Chemistry & Engineering
JF - Reaction Chemistry & Engineering
IS - 4
ER -