Size-controlled synthesis of Ni-B nanoparticles by applying statistical experimental design in reverse micelles technique
| Autor: | Manouchehr Nikazar, Amir Bahmanyar |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Ammonium bromide
Materials science Central composite design General Chemical Engineering Analytical chemistry 02 engineering and technology 010402 general chemistry 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology 01 natural sciences Micelle 0104 chemical sciences Sodium borohydride chemistry.chemical_compound chemistry Reagent Microemulsion Particle size Response surface methodology 0210 nano-technology |
| Zdroj: | The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering. 95:1288-1296 |
| ISSN: | 0008-4034 |
| DOI: | 10.1002/cjce.22797 |
| Popis: | This work focuses on the size-controlled preparation of Ni-B nanoparticles by chemical reduction of nickel acetate with sodium borohydride in the ternary reverse micelles of cetyl trimethyl ammonium bromide (CTAB)/n-hexanol/water. A response surface methodology (RSM) with four factors: CTAB/water (0.5–3.5 g/g); CTAB/n-hexanol (0.2–0.8 g/g); B/Ni molar ratio (1-4) and nickel salt concentration (0.075–0.525 mol/L) were used to study the mean size of nanoparticles. Based on the central composite design (CCD), a total of 32 experimental tests were performed to correlate both reagent concentrations (Ni2+ and BH4-) and microemulsion compositions (surfactant/oil/water) to the size of to-be-obtained nanoparticles. The Ni-B nanoparticles were obtained with a narrow size distribution of average diameter in the range of 4.5–30.6 nm. The quadratic model developed explained adequately the non-linear nature of the modelled response (R2 = 0.97, precision = 33.19). Also the influence of effective variables on the mean size of Ni-B nanoparticles were examined simultaneously and discussed theoretically by using 3D-surface and 2D-contour plots. Finally optimization of CCD based on desirability function was performed. The optimal conditions found to be at the surfactant/oil/water mass ratio of 34/55/11, nickel salt concentration of 0.24 mol/L and B/Ni molar ratio of 2.23 with desirability factor of 0.98. Moreover, validation of the optimization showed that the model predictions were very close to the experimental results with slight errors (7–10%). Finally, TEM micrographs of Ni-B nanoparticles at optimum conditions showed that by applying statistical experimental design in reverse micelle technique, not only particle size but also agglomeration could be effectively controlled. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved |
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