Aerosol flame reactors for the synthesis of nanoparticles

KONA Powder and Particle Journal

Volumn 18, Issue May, 2000, Pages 170-182

  Wegner, Karsten ^a   Pratsinis, Sotiris E ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; AGGLOMERATION; CARBON; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NANOPARTICLES; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

CARBON NANO-PARTICLES; EXTERNAL ELECTRIC FIELD; FLAME AEROSOL REACTOR; LARGE SCALE MANUFACTURE; LASER INDUCED FLUORESCENCE; ON-LINE PROCESS CONTROLS; PARTICLE FORMATION AND GROWTH; THERMOPHORETIC SAMPLINGS;

FLAME SYNTHESIS;

EID: 0011392385     PISSN: 02884534     EISSN: 21875537     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14356/kona.2000023     Document Type: Article

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