“…Particle formation via gas-phase reactions in furnace reactors is reasonably well understood and detailed models have been developed for systems such as silicon particle formation by the decomposition of silane (Wu et al, 1988;Nguyen and Flagan, 1991), silica by the oxidation of SiCl, (Kim andPratsinis, 1988, 1989), and titania by oxidation of TiC1, (Landgrebe et al, 1990;Pratsinis, 1990;Pratsinis et al, 1990); and reaction of titanium isopropoxide (Okuyama et al, 1986Kirkbir and Komiyama, 1987). In addition, a large body of more general models and modeling results is available and can be found in recent reviews (Kodas, 1989;Kodas and Sood, 1990;Pratsinis and Kodas, 1992).…”