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Scalable Synthesis of High Entropy Alloy Nanoparticles by Microwave Heating

pmid: 34423972
High entropy alloy nanoparticles (HEA-NPs) are reported to have superior performance in catalysis, energy storage, and conversion due to the broad range of elements that can be incorporated in these materials, enabling tunable activity, excellent thermal and chemical stability, and a synergistic catalytic effect. However, scaling the manufacturing of HEA-NPs with uniform particle size and homogeneous elemental distribution efficiently is still a challenge due to the required critical synthetic conditions where high temperature is typically involved. In this work, we demonstrate an efficient and scalable microwave heating method using carbon-based materials as substrates to fabricate HEA-NPs with uniform particle size. Due to the abundant functional group defects that can absorb microwave efficiently, reduced graphene oxide is employed as a model substrate to produce an average temperature reaching as high as ∼1850 K within seconds. As a proof-of-concept, we utilize this rapid, high-temperature heating process to synthesize PtPdFeCoNi HEA-NPs, which exhibit an average particle size of ∼12 nm and uniform elemental mixing resulting from decomposition nearly at the same time and liquid metal solidification without diffusion. Various carbon-based materials can also be employed as substrates, including one-dimensional carbon nanofibers and three-dimensional carbonized wood, which can achieve temperatures of >1400 K. This facile and efficient microwave heating method is also compatible with the roll-to-roll process, providing a feasible route for scalable HEA-NPs manufacturing.
- University of Maryland, Baltimore United States
- University of Chicago United States
- University of Maryland, College Park United States
- University of Illinois at Chicago United States
Biophysics, tunable activity, Biochemistry, roll-to-roll process, chemical stability, Space Science, Scalable Synthesis, Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified, metal solidification, heating process, Molecular Biology, High Entropy Alloy Nanoparticles, Ecology, energy storage, Microwave Heating High entropy allo., microwave heating method, particle size, carbon-based materials, scalable microwave heating method, group defects, 620, uniform particle size, model substrate, carbon nanofibers, graphene oxide, Various carbon-based materials, PtPdFeCoNi HEA-NPs, carbonized wood, Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified, scalable HEA-NPs manufacturing, Biotechnology, Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biophysics, tunable activity, Biochemistry, roll-to-roll process, chemical stability, Space Science, Scalable Synthesis, Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified, metal solidification, heating process, Molecular Biology, High Entropy Alloy Nanoparticles, Ecology, energy storage, Microwave Heating High entropy allo., microwave heating method, particle size, carbon-based materials, scalable microwave heating method, group defects, 620, uniform particle size, model substrate, carbon nanofibers, graphene oxide, Various carbon-based materials, PtPdFeCoNi HEA-NPs, carbonized wood, Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified, scalable HEA-NPs manufacturing, Biotechnology, Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
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