Application of Sonication and Microwave Irradiation to  Boost Continuous Fabrication of the Copper(II) Oxide  Sub-Micron Particles

Grzegorz Dzido; Michał Drzazga; Piotr Markowski; Andrzej B. Jarzębski

doi:10.3390/technologies3010037

Technologies (Mar 2015)

Application of Sonication and Microwave Irradiation to Boost Continuous Fabrication of the Copper(II) Oxide Sub-Micron Particles

Grzegorz Dzido,
Michał Drzazga,
Piotr Markowski,
Andrzej B. Jarzębski

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Grzegorz Dzido: Department of Chemical Engineering and Process Design, Faculty of Chemistry, Silesian University of Technology, Strzody 7, Gliwice 44-100, Poland
Michał Drzazga: Department of Chemical Engineering and Process Design, Faculty of Chemistry, Silesian University of Technology, Strzody 7, Gliwice 44-100, Poland
Piotr Markowski: Department of Inorganic, Analytical Chemistry and Electrochemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, Silesian University of Technology, Krzywoustego 6, Gliwice 44-100, Poland
Andrzej B. Jarzębski: Department of Chemical Engineering and Process Design, Faculty of Chemistry, Silesian University of Technology, Strzody 7, Gliwice 44-100, Poland

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/technologies3010037
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 3, no. 1
pp. 37 – 46

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Viability of the continuous-flow synthesis of rhomboidal copper(II) oxide (CuO) micro- and nanonoparticles was demonstrated. It has been shown that ultrasonic mixing of reactants, in the stage of Cu(OH)2 synthesis, followed by microwave irradiation of the resulting suspension, gives very fine particles of CuO at high yield and within minutes. Near optimal parameters for the synthesis of fine particles in the continuous reactor were determined.

Published in Technologies

ISSN: 2227-7080 (Online)
Publisher: MDPI AG
Country of publisher: Switzerland
LCC subjects: Technology
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