Reactive cavitation erosion as a technique for production of functionalized copper hydroxychloride nanomaterials

Abstract

The production of functionalized clinoatacamite (Cu 2 (OH) 3 Cl) nanoparticles from Reactive Cavitation Erosion (RCE) of copper in 1 M aqueous guanidine hydrochloride (GHCl) solution was investigated for applications as potential quantum magnet materials. As-synthesized nanomaterial was characterized by Diffuse-Reflectance Infrared Fourier-Transform Spectroscopy (DRIFTS), XRD, and TEM. These analyses were compared to nanoparticles produced from RCE of Cu in KCl and RCE of Cu in GHCl in oxygen-depleted (Ar) and oxygen-rich (compressed air, CA) solutions to identify possible reaction pathways.

Trends and characteristics of employing cavitation technology for water and wastewater treatment with a focus on hydrodynamic and ultrasonic cavitation over the past two decades: A Scientometric analysis

“…In particular, Fig. S2 shows that the use of "nanoparticles" increased much faster than the use of "nanobubbles," indicating that the research has been focused for the most part on the use of cavitation processes for the synthesis of nanomaterials (Afreen et al, 2019;Choudhary et al, 2022;De Alwis et al, 2021;Sun et al, 2020b;Wright and Mitchell, 2020). While the trend shown in Fig.…”