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Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, Vol.81, 340-351, January, 2020
DOI10.1016/j.jiec.2019.09.024  Export Citation
Pursuit of optimal synthetic conditions for obtaining colloidal zero-valent iron nanoparticles by scanning pulsed laser ablation in liquids
Ruth Lahoz1, Eva Natividad2, †, Álvaro Mayoral3, Christian Rentenberger4, Daniel Díaz-Fernández5, Eduardo J. Félix6, Leonardo Soriano5, Wolfgang Kautek7, and Oscar Bomati-Miguel5, 6, †
  • 1Centro de Química y Materiales de Aragón (CEQMA), CSIC-Universidad de Zaragoza, Campus Rio Ebro, 50018 Zaragoza, Spain
  • 2Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Aragón (ICMA), CSIC-Universidad de Zaragoza, EINA, Edificio Torres Quevedo, María de Luna, 3, 50018, Zaragoza, Spain
  • 3Centre for High-resolution Electron Microscopy (CћEM), School of Physical Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, 393 Middle Huaxia Road, Pudong, Shanghai, 201210, China
  • 4Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna, Boltzmanngasse 5, 1090, Vienna, Austria
  • 5Departamento de Física Aplicada, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Campus de Cantoblanco, 28049, Madrid, Spain
  • 6Departamento de Física de la Materia Condensada and Institute of Research on Electron Microscopy and Materials (IMEYMAT), Universidad de Cádiz, Campus Universitario Polígono Río San Pedro, 11510 Puerto Real, Cádiz, Spain
  • 7Department of Physical Chemistry, University of Vienna, Waehringer Strasse 42, 1090 Vienna, Austria
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Liquid-Assisted Pulsed Laser Ablation (LA-PLA) is a promising top-down method to directly synthesize colloidal dispersions of nanoparticles in a eco-friendly manner. However, the role of LA-PLA synthesis parameters is not yet fully agreed. This work seeks to optimize the production of nanoscale zero-valent iron (nZVI) particles suitable for biomedical or environmental applications using nanosecond LA-PLA on iron targets with different ablation media, laser and target scanning parameters. The use of alcohols as solvents produces iron-iron oxide core-shell nanoparticles with amorphous cores, except for a small crystalline fraction corresponding to the biggest core sizes. Decreasing carbon chain length and complexity leads to a thinning of the carbonaceous material coatings and an increase of the colloidal stability and the nanoparticle productivity. Moreover, a decrease of solvent density and surface tension allows obtaining reduced sizes and polydispersity values. Among, laser and scanning parameters, the pulse accumulation per spot displayed a clear effect in boosting size and productivity. As main outcome, aqueous dispersions with suitable colloidal properties are obtained, either by transferring to water of optimized nZVI particles produced in ethanol, or by direct formation of nZVI particles and in situ coating with hydrophilic molecules in aqueous solutions of these molecules.
Keywords:Nanoscale zero-valent iron particles;Core-shell structure;Water-stable colloidal metal nanoparticles;Surface functionalization;Liquid-assisted nanosecond pulsed laser;ablation;High-resolution transmission electron;microscopy
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