ARI scientists develop microreactor that produces uniform size of nanoparticles

Scientists from Agharkar Research Institute (ARI) have developed a microreactor that can produce large quantities of uniform size of nanoparticles. Producing a uniform size of nanoparticles has been a problem faced by the biomedical field. This discovery will serve as a major requirement in biomedical technology.

Highlights:
♦ The microreactor could synthesize metal, semiconductor, and polymer nanoparticles by continuous flow active microreactor. 
♦ Microreactor has parameters such as the concentration of reactants, flow rate, agitation, reaction temperature, and time. It can determine the size of nanoparticles and their distribution.
♦ They further derived a mathematical equation using dimensional analysis to predict process parameters accurately for achieving true monodispersity.
♦ Using this method gold and silver, cadmium-telluride, chitosan, alginate and hyaluronic acid nanoparticles of any size with the coefficient of variation below 5% can be produced.
♦ The new approach to resolve the monodispersity paradox of the nanomaterial can be applied to other chemical reactions where stringent control on the reaction dynamics is vital.