RESS for the preparation of fluorinated porphyrin nanoparticles

Chem Commun (Camb). 2003 Nov 7:(21):2720-1. doi: 10.1039/b306967b.

Authors

Amporn Sane¹, Shelby Taylor, Ya-Ping Sun, Mark C Thies

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemical Engineering, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634-0909, USA.

PMID: 14649828
DOI: 10.1039/b306967b

Abstract

Rapid Expansion of Supercritical Solutions (RESS) was used to produce clean, surfactant-free nanoparticles (average size = 60 nm) of a fluorinated tetraphenylporphyrin from supercritical solutions with CO2.