Dear Raj,

the benefit of the microfluid technology is, that you gain an excellent possibility to control the reaction parameters. At least this allows you to make your products more precisely and reproducible.

The most arising challenge is to upgrade the system to a full working production system, which includes an online measurement system that gives you instantly a feedback about your synthesized particles. Additionally you can add more pathways, which clean the particles, or add new surfactants. Ending up with fast produced, full useable nanoparticle suspensions or powders.

However, due to the high mixing rate, as well as the possibility to induce particle growth by heat, you can prepare particles as fast as this is done by hot-injection methods. On the other hand, you can stop the reaction growth by a fast cooling, preventing any additional growth in the cool down phase of high-temp. reaction.

Due to the possibility to create extremely fast data about particle growth, you can concentrate on the field of science: particle growth. Not much is known about this field, because every system behaves another way. As far as I know from my science, every additional information about the growth mechanisms is very welcome in the community.

In the case of the application:

Well, the nanoparticles can be used everywhere… and I mean realy everywhere. My experience is mostly based on the functionalisation of surfaces with metal or metal oxide nanoparticles to gain additional features. However you can also produce particles made of plastics, ceramics or other materials. The application range is from classic material science topics, over medicine to what ever you are looking for. Just take look at nanotechproject.org

Best regards,

Darius

Thank you very much Sir Darius Arndt