Sonofragmentation of Ultrathin 1D Nanomaterials

Gao, Ruixuan; Gupta, Ishan; Boyden, Edward S.

doi:10.1002/ppsc.201600339

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“…This generates a high-speed liquid stream with velocities of more than 100 m s –1 . This phenomenon can be used, for example, to fragment aspirin, to break ultrathin Ge nanowires, to disperse TiO 2 agglomerates, to roughen the surface of spherical Zn particles, or to partially melt metallic particles . This mechanical effect is thus the main driving force of sonofragmentation …”

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Sonocrystallization as an Efficient Way to Control the Size, Morphology, and Purity of Coordination Compound Microcrystallites: Application to a Single-Chain Magnet

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Size, morphology and purity control of coordination compounds powders is a key stage for their conversion into materials and devices. In particular, surface science techniques require highly pure bulk materials with a narrow crystallite-size distribution together with straightforward, scalable and reproducible crystallization procedures. In this work we demonstrate how sonocrystallization, i.e. application of ultrasounds during the crystallization process, can afford, very quickly, powders made of crystallites with controlled size, morphology and purity. We show that this process drastically diminishes the crystallite-size distribution (low Polydispersity Indexes, PDI) and crystallite aspect ratio. By comparing sonicated samples with various silent crystallization conditions, we unambiguously show that the improvement of the crystallite morphologies and size-distribution is not due to any thermal effect but to the sonication of the crystallizing media. The application of sonocrystallization on crystallization batches of Single-Chain Magnets (SCM) maintains SCMs chemical integrity together with their original magnetic behavior. Moreover, luminescent measurements show that sonocrystallization induces an efficient micromixing that drastically enhances the purity of the SCMs powders. We thus propose that sonocrystallization, which is already used on organic or MOF compounds, can be applied to (magnetic) coordination compounds to readily afford bulk powders for characterization or shaping techniques that require pure, morphology-and crystallite-size-controlled powder samples.

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Sonocrystallization as an Efficient Way to Control the Size, Morphology, and Purity of Coordination Compound Microcrystallites: Application to a Single-Chain Magnet

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“…In this study, we utilized commercial Fe powder as an extraction material together with ultrasonic texturization for the in situ formation of n-ZVI for U(VI) extraction in the presence of F − . Due to the cavitation effect of ultrasonication, [46][47][48][49][50][51][52][53][54][55][56][57] n-ZVI was persistently distributed on the surface of the commercial Fe powder during U(VI) reduction. For the U(VI) extraction from the F − -containing wastewater, the ultrasonic treatment dramatically boosted the kinetics and extraction efficiency.…”

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