A novel technique to generate aluminum nanoparticles utilizing ultrasound ablation

Abazar Hajnorouzi; Reza Afzalzadeh

doi:10.1016/j.ultsonch.2019.104655

A novel technique to generate aluminum nanoparticles utilizing ultrasound ablation

Ultrason Sonochem. 2019 Nov:58:104655. doi: 10.1016/j.ultsonch.2019.104655. Epub 2019 Jul 2.

Authors

Abazar Hajnorouzi¹, Reza Afzalzadeh²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Physics, Faculty of Basic Science, Shahed University, POB 18155/159, Tehran, Iran. Electronic address: ahajnorouzi@shahed.ac.ir.
² Department of Solid State Physics, Faculty of Physics, K.N. Toosi University of Technology, POB 15875/4416, Tehran, Iran.

PMID: 31450329
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultsonch.2019.104655

Abstract

In the present article, a novel method of ultrasound ablation technique is presented with the experimental results for the generation of the aluminum nanoparticles. The formation of the aluminum nanoparticle is confirmed by; the powder X-ray diffraction (XRD), the field emission electron microscopy (FESEM), the atomic force microscopy (AFM) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). The most probable particle size of nanoparticles produced by this method is 44.7 and 105.7 nm for two different ultrasonic power of 20 W and 50 W respectively. The ultrasonic ablation method is an innovative method for the production of aluminum nanoparticles. In this method, the fast movement sanding by an ultrasonic apparatus converts aluminum foil to nanoparticles. The most important advantages of this method are green, fast, controllable, and high purity of the produced nanoparticle.

Keywords: Aluminum nanoparticles; FEM transducer simulation; Fast green method; Transmission electron microscopy; Ultrasonic ablation.