Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa)

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Chemistry

A Continuous-flow Photocatalytic Reactor for the Precisely Controlled Deposition of Metallic Nanoparticles

Sina Abdolhosseinzadeh^1,2, Mirsajjad Mousavi³, Navid Haghmoradi³, Selmiye Alkan Gürsel^3,4

¹Institut des matériaux, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), ²Laboratory for Functional Polymers, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa), ³Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Sabanci University, ⁴SUNUM Nanotechnology Research Centre, Sabanci University

For a continuous and scalable synthesis of noble-metal-based nanocomposites, a novel photocatalytic reactor is developed and its structure, operation principles, and product quality optimization strategies are described.