The synthesis of nanostructured materials is very important due to the properties of nanostructured materials. Nanostructured materials have important applications in fields such as catalysis, electronic materials, and superconductors. Nanostructured catalysts can be synthesized using different methods such as acoustic, microwave, and hydrodynamic cavitation. The simplest method of synthesis for nanostructured materials is hydrodynamic cavitation by mechanical means. Various experiments were performed to evaluate a novel hydrodynamic cavitation synthesis equipment. The main goal was to determine if the equipment could synthesize and control the grain sizes of supported and unsupported metal oxides. Unfortunately, the new hydrodynamic cavitation synthesis equipment gave little or no change in grain sizes of synthesized nanostructured catalysts.

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Creator

• Lee, Chanson
• Martinez-Lima, Eduardo F.
• Tai, Jianren

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• 99D128M

Advisor

• Moser, William R.

Year

• 1999

Date created

• 1999-01-01

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Chemical Engineering

Rights statement

• In Copyright