Dispersions of Zirconia Nanoparticles Close to the Phase Boundary of Surfactant-Free Ternary Mixtures

The achievement of a homogeneous dispersion of nanoparticles is of paramount importance in supporting their technological application. In wet processing, stable dispersions were largely obtained via surfactant or surface functionalization: although effective, the use of dispersant can alter, or even...

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Veröffentlicht in:Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids. - 1992. - 37(2021), 14 vom: 13. Apr., Seite 4072-4081
1. Verfasser: Fiorati, Andrea (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Florit, Federico, Mazzei, Andrea, Buzzaccaro, Stefano, Rossi, Barbara, Piazza, Roberto, Rota, Renato, De Nardo, Luigi
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2021
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids
Schlagworte:Journal Article
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520 |a The achievement of a homogeneous dispersion of nanoparticles is of paramount importance in supporting their technological application. In wet processing, stable dispersions were largely obtained via surfactant or surface functionalization: although effective, the use of dispersant can alter, or even impair, the functional properties of the resulting nanostructured systems. Herein, we report a novel integrated modeling and experimental approach to obtain stable ZrO2 nanoparticle (NP) dispersions at native dimensions (about 5 nm) in homogeneous ternary mixtures of solvents (i.e., water, ethanol, and 1,2-dichlorobenzene) without any further surface functionalization. A miscibility ternary diagram was computed exploiting the universal quasi-chemical functional-group activity coefficient (UNIFAC) model, which was then experimentally validated. Dynamic light scattering (DLS) on these mixtures highlights that nanometric structures, resembling nanoemulsion droplets, form close to the mixture two-phase boundary, with a size that depends on the ternary mixture composition. ZrO2-NPs were then synthesized following a classic sol-gel approach and characterized by XRD and Raman spectroscopy. ZrO2-NPs were dispersed in HCl and mixed with different mixtures of ethanol and 1,2-dichlorobenzene (DCB), obtaining homogeneous and stable dispersions. These dispersions were then studied by means of DLS as a function of DCB concentration, observing that the nanoparticles can be dispersed at their native dimensions when the mass fraction of DCB was lower than 60%, whereas the increase of the hydrophobic solvent leads to the NPs' agglomeration and sedimentation. The proposed approach not only offers specific guidelines for the design of ZrO2-NPs dispersions in a ternary solvent mixture but can also be extended to other complex solvent mixtures in order to achieve stable dispersions of nanoparticles with no functionalization 
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700 1 |a Rossi, Barbara  |e verfasserin  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Piazza, Roberto  |e verfasserin  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Rota, Renato  |e verfasserin  |4 aut 
700 1 |a De Nardo, Luigi  |e verfasserin  |4 aut 
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