
Synthesis of Nanostructured Materials in Near and/or Supercritical Fluids
Methods, Fundamentals and Modeling
Description
Key Features
- Includes thermodynamic and mass transfer data necessary for industrial plant design
- Explains the mechanisms of reactions in a supercritical fluid environment
- Lists numerous industrial processes for the production of many consumer products
Readership
Chemical engineers, materials scientists, chemists and physicists from both, academia and industry. The book could be used for a graduate level course on supercritical fluids
Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction
1.1 Some conventions
1.2 Scope of the book
1.3 Motivation
Chapter 2. Compounds of interest
2.1. Introduction
2.2 Types of coordination compounds
2.3 Structures and bonding in coordination of compounds
2.4 Reactions of organometallic compounds
Chapter 3. Fundamental aspects of pure supercritical fluids
3.1 Thermal and caloric properties
3.2 Transport properties
Chapter 4. Thermodynamics of mixtures of metal complexes with supercritical fluids
4.1 Phase behavior
4.2 Solubility of metal complexes in CO2
4.3 Transport properties
4.4 Techniques to measure solubility of metal complexes in SCFs
4.5 Modeling solubility of metal complexes in SCFs
Chapter 5. Thermodynamic and kinetic of adsorption of metal complexes on substrates from supercritical solutions
5.1 Adsorption isotherms
5.2 Adsorption of SCFs
5.3 Adsorption of solutes from supercritical mixtures
5.4 Adsorption of metal complexes on surfaces
5.5 Techniques to measure adsorption behavior
5.5 Modeling thermodynamic and kinetic of adsorption
Chapter 6. Synthesis of nanostructured composites of metals by
Supercritical Fluid Reactive Deposition (SFRD)
6.1 Supported nanoparticles on inorganic and carbon supports
6.2 Polymer-supported nanoparticles
6.3 Supported bimetallic and multi-component nanoparticles
6.4 Metallic Films
6.5 Conditions for successful particle / film formation
6.6 Characterization techniques
Chapter 7. Synthesis of metal-oxide nanoparticles / films
7.1 Continuous Hydrothermal Synthesis in near- / supercritical H2O (CHTS)
7.2 Continuous Thermal Decomposition in solvents (e.g. CO2, EtOH) or a mixture (CTD)
7.3 Conditions for successful particle formation
7.4 Characterization techniques
Chapter 8. Modeling of Particle Formation in Supercritical Fluids
8.1 SFRD Process
8.2 CHTS Process
8.3 CTD Process
Chapter 9. Future Research Needs and Developments
Product details
- No. of pages: 282
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Elsevier 2021
- Published: November 26, 2021
- Imprint: Elsevier
- eBook ISBN: 9780444640901
- Paperback ISBN: 9780444640895
About the Authors
Can Erkey
Affiliations and Expertise
Michael Turk

His current research activities are focused on the use of supercritical fluids (mainly CO2 and H2O) as media to prepare organic, inorganic and metallic materials by physical transformation or chemical reaction and the development of new, energy-efficient and environmentally-friendly strategies to create novel products with extraordinary performance for pharmaceutical, energy and biomedical applications.
So far, M. Türk has authored 125 articles (including 13 book chapters); has graduated 20 PhD students (10 as supervisor and 10 as co-advisor) and more than 50 Diploma / Master and 15 Bachelor students.
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