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 …

Toward industrial scale synthesis of ultrapure singlet nanoparticles with controllable sizes in a continuous gas-phase process

J Feng, G Biskos, A Schmidt-Ott - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
Continuous gas-phase synthesis of nanoparticles is associated with rapid agglomeration,
which can be a limiting factor for numerous applications. In this report, we challenge this …

Mini review on gas-phase synthesis for energy nanomaterials

H Zhang, H Zhou, Y Wang, S Li, P Biswas - Energy & Fuels, 2020 - ACS Publications
Gas-phase routes have emerged as a promising method for synthesizing functional
nanomaterials. A review of the state-of-the-art on aerosol reactors, such as flame aerosol …

Challenges of measuring nascent soot in flames as evidenced by high-resolution differential mobility analysis

F Carbone, M Attoui, A Gomez - Aerosol Science and Technology, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Nascent soot particles with mobility diameters≤ 10 nm were measured in an ethylene/air
premixed flame to shed light on the challenges and potential artifacts affecting studies on …

Atomic cluster generation with an atmospheric pressure spark discharge generator

A Maisser, K Barmpounis, MB Attoui… - Aerosol Science and …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
A new method for generating metal clusters in the gas phase is described and characterized
in this work. The method is based on material evaporation by spark ablation at atmospheric …

Comparison of discrete, discrete-sectional, modal and moment models for aerosol dynamics simulations

H Zhang, G Sharma, S Dhawan, D Dhanraj… - Aerosol Science and …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
An open source software (Aerosol and Air Quality Research Lab-Aerosol Dynamics Model,
AAQRL-ADM) used for aerosol dynamics simulations is developed by including four models …

Sub-2 nm particle measurement in high-temperature aerosol reactors: a review

P Biswas, Y Wang, M Attoui - Current Opinion in Chemical Engineering, 2018 - Elsevier
Highlights•Recent results on sub-2 nm particles generated from high-temperature aerosol
reactors are summarized.•Aerosol instruments measuring the size, concentration, and …

Enhancing the detection efficiency of condensation particle counters for sub-2 nm particles

K Barmpounis, A Ranjithkumar, A Schmidt-Ott… - Journal of Aerosol …, 2018 - Elsevier
The detection efficiency of Condensation Particle Counters (CPCs) reduces drastically as
particle size becomes smaller than 2 nm. Increasing the supersaturation in order to enhance …

The high charge fraction of flame-generated particles in the size range below 3 nm measured by enhanced particle detectors

Y Wang, J Kangasluoma, M Attoui, J Fang… - Combustion and …, 2017 - Elsevier
Charging in flames significantly affects the properties of the resultant particles produced
because of its influence in almost all stages of particle formation. The charging …

Kinetics of sub-2 nm TiO2 particle formation in an aerosol reactor during thermal decomposition of titanium tetraisopropoxide

Y Wang, P Liu, J Fang, WN Wang, P Biswas - Journal of Nanoparticle …, 2015 - Springer
Particle size distribution measurements from differential mobility analyzers (DMAs) can be
utilized to study particle formation mechanisms. However, knowledge on the initial stages of …