1462results about "Copper oxides/halides" patented technology

Methods and systems for processing metal oxides from metal containing solutions. Metal containing solutions are mixed with heated aqueous oxidizing solutions and processed in a continuous process reactor or batch processing system. Combinations of temperature, pressure, molarity, Eh value, and pH value of the mixed solution are monitored and adjusted so as to maintain solution conditions within a desired stability area during processing. This results in metal oxides having high or increased pollutant loading capacities and/or oxidation states. These metal oxides may be processed according to the invention to produce co-precipitated oxides of two or more metals, metal oxides incorporating foreign cations, metal oxides precipitated on active and inactive substrates, or combinations of any or all of these forms. Metal oxides thus produced are, amongst other uses; suitable for use as a sorbent for capturing or removing target pollutants from industrial gas streams or drinking water or aqueous streams or for personal protective respirators.

The present invention describes methods for preparing high quality nanoparticles, i.e., metal oxide based nanoparticles of uniform size and monodispersity. The nanoparticles advantageously comprise organic alkyl chain capping groups and are stable in air and in nonpolar solvents. The methods of the invention provide a simple and reproducible procedure for forming transition metal oxide nanocrystals, with yields over 80%. The highly crystalline and monodisperse nanocrystals are obtained directly without further size selection; particle size can be easily and fractionally increased by the methods. The resulting nanoparticles can exhibit magnetic and/or optical properties. These properties result from the methods used to prepare them. Also advantageously, the nanoparticles of this invention are well suited for use in a variety of industrial applications, including cosmetic and pharmaceutical formulations and compositions.

The invention discloses a preparation method of nano cuprous oxide. In the method, copper chloride and copper nitrate are taken as copper sources, hydrazine hydrate, glucose and an ascorbic acid and the like are taken as reducing agents, and cuprous oxide materials in the shape of an octahedron, a hollow sphere, a cube and a hollow cube and the like are successfully obtained by using a liquid-phase reduction method and a hydrothermal method. Required raw materials for preparation are rich, the cost is low, and no waste is produced. The preparation process is simple, and the repeatability is good. Cuprous oxide nano-materials have wide applications in the aspects of photocatalysis, gas-sensing materials, antibacterial materials, and the like.

The invention provides a multi-shell-layer metal oxide hollow ball and a preparation method thereof. A hydrothermal method is used for preparing a carbon ball template; metal salts are dissolved in carbon ball suspension liquid, and the gradient distribution, the depth and the number of metal salts entering carbon balls are controlled through regulating adsorption conditions such as metal salt concentration, solution pH value, soaking temperature and time and the like; and the heat treatment is carried out on the carbon balls adsorbing metal ions, and the multi-shell-layer metal oxide hollow ball can be obtained. The shell-layer of the hollow ball prepared by the method is formed by accumulating nanometer crystal particles of metal oxides, the shell layer number can be regulated and changed from two to four, and both the size of the hollow ball and the thickness of the shell layers are controllable. The method provided by the invention is simple and is easy to implement, the controllability is high, the pollution is little, the cost is low, and in addition, the general applicability is realized. The prepared product has a hollow structure and the shell layers with the thickness inthe nanometer level, simultaneously, the internal space can be effectively utilized through the multilayer structure, and the multi-shell-layer metal oxide hollow ball is applied to gas sensitivity and photocatalysis and has the more excellent performance through being compared with the traditional nanometer material and a single-layer hollow ball.

A process of treating metal oxide nanoparticles that includes mixing metal oxide nanoparticles, a solvent, and a surface treatment agent that is preferably a silane or siloxane is described. The treated metal oxide nanoparticles are rendered hydrophobic by the surface treatment agent being surface attached thereto, and are preferably dispersed in a hydrophobic aromatic polymer binder of a charge transport layer of a photoreceptor, whereby π—π interactions can be formed between the organic moieties on the surface of the nanoparticles and the aromatic components of the binder polymer to achieve a stable dispersion of the nanoparticles in the polymer that is substantially free of large sized agglomerations.

The present invention includes a method of producing a crystalline metal oxide nanostructure. The method comprises providing a metal salt solution and providing a basic solution; placing a porous membrane between the metal salt solution and the basic solution, wherein metal cations of the metal salt solution and hydroxide ions of the basic solution react, thereby producing a crystalline metal oxide nanostructure.

The present invention provides a copper oxide-containing composition that includes copper oxide nanoparticles and one or more heteroatom donor ligands bonded to the surface of the nanoparticles, where x and y are numbers having a ratio that is equal to the ratio of the average number of M atoms to the average number of 0 atoms in the nanoparticles. The nanoparticles are stabilized by the one or more heteroatom donor ligands which act as a protective layer that cap the surface of the nanoparticles. The present invention also provides a solution of the copper oxide nanoparticles that may be applied to a substrate and then subsequently reduced to copper metal. Finally, the invention provides a method of preparing the copper oxide nanoparticles.

In chloride media, copper anodic dissolution is a mature process for producing cuprous oxide (Cu2O); and based on the preparation process, the invention provides a method for directly growing a one-dimensional nanometer Cu2O array on an anode metal copper substrate through adding a surface active agent to an anode slot, and controlling the concentration of electrolyte chloride salt in the anode slot, the concentration of alkali in a cathode slot, electric quantity of electrolysis and electrolysis temperature. The array has controllable appearance, and consists of a nanometer belt, a nanometer plate and a nanometer line, wherein the top end of the one-dimensional array can be acicular, circular, and the like. The one-dimensional nanometer Cu2O array directly growing on the copper substrate has excellent effect of field emission performance and visible light catalysis, and has wide application prospect in technical fields of vacuum microelectronic devices, panel display, advanced oxidation and other aspects.

The present invention is directed to novel sol-gel methods in which metal oxide precursor and an alcohol-based solution are mixed to form a reaction mixture that is then allowed to react to produce nanosized metal oxide particles. The methods of the present invention are more suitable for preparing nanosized metal oxide than are previously-described sol-gel methods. The present invention can provide for nanosized metal oxide particles more efficiently than the previously-described sol-gel methods by permitting higher concentrations of metal oxide precursor to be employed in the reaction mixture. The foregoing is provided by careful control of the pH conditions during synthesis and by ensuring that the pH is maintained at a value of about 7 or higher.

Provided herein are nanofibers and processes of preparing nanofibers. In some instances, the nanofibers are metal and/or ceramic nanofibers. In some embodiments, the nanofibers are high quality, high performance nanofibers, highly coherent nanofibers, highly continuous nanofibers, or the like. In some embodiments, the nanofibers have increased coherence, increased length, few voids and/or defects, and/or other advantageous characteristics. In some instances, the nanofibers are produced by electrospinning a fluid stock having a high loading of nanofiber precursor in the fluid stock. In some instances, the fluid stock comprises well mixed and/or uniformly distributed precursor in the fluid stock. In some instances, the fluid stock is converted into a nanofiber comprising few voids, few defects, long or tunable length, and the like.

The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing metal nanoparticles, more particularly to a method for manufacturing metal nanoparticles, which includes: preparing a mixed solution including capping molecules, a metal catalyst, a reducing agent, and an organic solvent; adding a metal precursor to the mixed solution and raising to a predetermined temperature and stirring; and lowering the temperature of the mixed solution and producing nanoparticles. Embodiments of the invention allow the synthesis of nanoparticles, such as of single metals, metal alloys, or metal oxides, to a high concentration in a water base using a metal catalyst.

The invention provides a process for production of fine spherical particles of a carbonate or a hydroxide of nickel, cobalt or copper which comprises: dissolving a carbonate or a hydroxide of nickel, cobalt or copper having the general formula (I)wherein M represents Ni, Co or Cu, and x and y are numerals satisfying the followings: 0<=x<=2, 0<=y<=2 and x+y=2, in aqueous ammonia, converting the resulting solution to a W/O emulsion containing droplets of the solution in a non-aqueous medium, and then removing volatile components including ammonia from within the droplets, thereby precipitating a basic carbonate or a hydroxide of a metal selected from nickel, cobalt and copperin the droplets.The fine spherical particles of a carbonate or a hydroxide of nickel, cobalt or copper obtained according to the process of the invention are especially useful as a precursor for the manufacture of uniform, fine spherical particles of nickel, copper or cobalt metal, as well as useful as themselves as a catalyst for use in organic synthesis, a carrier, a pigment, a filler or a glaze.

A method for synthesis of high quality colloidal nanoparticles using comprises a high heating rate process. Irradiation of single mode, high power, microwave is a particularly well suited technique to realize high quality semiconductor nanoparticles. The use of microwave radiation effectively automates the synthesis, and more importantly, permits the use of a continuous flow microwave reactor for commercial preparation of the high quality colloidal nanoparticles.

The invention discloses a graphene loaded Cu-CuxO composite material and a preparation method thereof. Through the preparation method, Cu-CuxO composite particles with uniform particle size and controllable morphology and components can be loaded on graphene. The preparation method comprises the following steps of dispersing uniformly oxidized graphite in deionized water by supersonic waves to obtain an oxidized graphene solution, adding a copper salt into the oxidized graphene solution, mixing uniformly, adjusting a pH value of the mixed solution obtained by the previous step to an appropriate pH value, putting the mixed solution into a reactor for a hydro-thermal reaction, carrying out separation and calcination of reaction products obtained by the hydro-thermal reaction to obtain the graphene loaded Cu-CuxO composite material. The preparation method has the advantages of common and easily available raw materials, low cost, and simple and safe preparation processes. The prepared graphene loaded Cu-CuxO composite material has good structural stability, excellent physicochemical properties, and potential application values in the fields of lithium ion batteries, photoelectric conversion, catalytic degradation and electron devices.

Methods for manufacturing nanomaterial dispersions, such as nanomaterial concentrates, and related nanotechnology are provided. The nanomaterial concentrates provided can be more cheaply stored and transported compared to non-concentrate nanomaterial forms.

A process for preparing the size and shape controllable ampholytic metal oxides and their metallic nanotubes features that based on the principle that under existance of excessive alkali the ampholytic metal hydroxide can become coordinate anions, under the action of surfactant as "soft template", the ampholytic metal oxide and its metallic nanotubes can be prepared by direct hydrothermal reaction or redox reaction (for example, ZnO, CuO, Al2O3, PbO2, SnO2 and relative metals). Its advantages are simple process, controllable sizes of nanotube, uniform wall thickness, and high output.

The invention discloses a novel and large-scale preparation method of nano-cuprous oxide. The method comprises the steps of: fully dissolving copper salt and an organic protective agent in a dissolvent; gradually warming to 20-70 DEG C; adding a reducing agent into a reaction system after the temperature is stabilized; reacting for 20-30min by continuously stirring; gradually cooling; standing the cooled solution and centrifuging; and repeatedly washing by alcohol, deionized water and acetone sequentially in sequence to obtain stable cuprous oxide. The method is simple in technology, simple in operation, moderate in reaction, short in reaction time, and high in efficiency, thereby being suitable for large-scale production; the product is good in performance, the grain size of the nano-cuprous oxide is less than 20nm, and the product has good secondary dispersibility in various oil agents; the method is low in preparation cost, low in energy consumption, and free of the generation of harmful wastes, and meets the modern production requirement of 'green protection, environment protection and energy saving'.

The invention discloses a nano copper oxide analogue enzyme and a method for measuring hydrogen peroxide by using the nano copper oxide analogue enzyme as a peroxide analogue enzyme. The nano copper oxide analogue enzyme is nano copper oxide powder with a grain diameter ranging from 5 to 8 nanometers; the nano copper oxide is Cuo of a monoclinic system, the space group is C2/c; and the maximum absorption peaks of the typical ultraviolet-visible absorption spectra of the prepared nano copper oxide are at 280-nanometer positions. The nano copper oxide analogue enzyme is obtained by a chemical precipitation process. The nano copper oxide analogue enzyme has a catalytic property similar to that of peroxidase. When the nano copper oxide analogue enzyme is used in a 4-aminoantipyrine-ol system, the colorimetric detection of hydrogen peroxide can be realized, the hydrogen peroxide detection limit is 0.02mmol/L, and the linear range is 1mmol/L.

We disclose a method of manufacture of silver oxide nano metal particles of 2-10 mm size with specific phase and geometry in their exterior and interior making them suitable for use as potent antimicrobial and styptic agents.

The invention relates to a method for preparing hydrotalcite, which comprises the following steps of: (1) preparation of buffer solution, namely preparing the buffer solution with a pH value of 9 to 10 by using aqueous ammonia and ammonium chloride or aqueous ammonia and ammonium bicarbonate; (2) dripping of metal salt solution, namely dripping the metal salt solution into the stirred buffer solution, and continuously stirring the solution for 1 to 1.5 hours after the dripping is finished; (3) crystallization and washing, namely crystallizing the stirred mixed solution for 6 to 24 hours at the temperature of between 55 and 95 DEG C, and filtering and washing the crystallized solution to obtain filter solution and filter cakes; and (4) drying and grinding, namely drying the filter cakes at the temperature of between 55 and 95 DEG C and grinding the filter cakes into powder. The method provides a stable solution environment with a pH value of 9 to 10 for the formation of the hydrotalcite by using the buffer solution used as a precipitating agent, ensures complete crystal phase structure and uniform grain size of a hydrotalcite product, and solves the problems of difficult pH value control, wide grain size distribution and the like during preparing the hydrotalcite by using a traditional co-precipitation method in the industry.