Particular Materials published its first paper!
Many thanks to the work performed by Dr. Dario Mosconi, Dr. Marco Sturaro, Dr. Marco Bersani, Dr. Matias Blanco and Professor G. Granozzi that lead to the publication of Particular Material’s first paper: “Selective and scaled-up continuous flow synthesis of manganese oxide nanocatalysts for single electron transfer reactions”.
As we know, the application of high-quality nanomaterials in industrial products and processes can be hindered by their actual market availability at a large scale, mostly due to preparation methods that can be hardly scalable for cost, reproducibility, sustainability,or complexity issues.
In this paper, the technology of Particular Material’s (CFHS) has been used to prepare various nano Mn oxides in supercritical water with common and low-cost precursors and additives, yielding an outstanding production rate of 1 Kg/day.
Among the results, we observed exquisite selectivity, consistency, phase control and replicability of the synthetic conditions. All the 6 phases of Mn oxides (MnO, α-MnO2, β-MnO2, λ-MnO2, Mn2O3, Mn3O4) together with LiMn2O4 oxides were obtained with reproducible characteristics.
As a case study, all MnOx nanomaterials were tested as catalyst precursors in the Single Electron Transfer (SET) oxidation of olefins with 1,3-dicarbonyl compounds, obtaining recyclable active materials whose respective activity depends on the particular oxide structure, therefore proving the importance of phase selectivity in the final application.
