High-throughput continuous hydrothermal flow synthesis of Zn-Ce oxides: Unprecedented solubility of Zn in the nanoparticle fluorite lattice

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 368, Issue 1927, 2010, Pages 4331-4349

  Kellici, Suela ^a   Gong, Kenan ^a   Lin, Tian ^a   Brown, Sonal ^a   Clark, Robin J H ^a   Vickers, Martin ^a   Cockcroft, Jeremy K ^a   Middelkoop, Vesna ^a   Barnes, Paul ^a   Perkins, James M ^b   Tighe, Christopher J ^a   Darr, Jawwad A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cerium oxide; Continuous hydrothermal flow synthesis; Supercritical water; Zinc oxide

Indexed keywords

CERIUM; CERIUM COMPOUNDS; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENERGY DISPERSIVE SPECTROSCOPY; FLUORSPAR; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; LIGHT SOURCES; NANOPARTICLES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATES; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAY SPECTROSCOPY; ZINC; ZINC OXIDE;

BAND GAPS; BEAM LINES; BINARY SYSTEMS; BIPHASIC MIXTURES; BRUNAUER-EMMETT-TELLER SURFACE AREAS; CERIUM OXIDES; CRYSTALLINITIES; DIAMOND LIGHT SOURCE; ELEMENTAL ANALYSIS; ENERGY DISPERSIVE X-RAY SPECTROSCOPY; FLOW SYNTHESIS; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH SURFACE AREA; HIGH-THROUGHPUT; NANO POWDERS; NANO-MATERIALS; PARTICLE PROPERTIES; POWDER X RAY DIFFRACTION; SAMPLE COMPOSITION; SUPERCRITICAL WATER; SYNTHETIC METHODS; SYNTHETIC ROUTES; UV-VISIBLE SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

HYDROTHERMAL SYNTHESIS;

EID: 77958035091     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2010.0135     Document Type: Conference Paper

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