I am looking for polar solvents to disperse Palladium nanoparticles ( bare particles with no attached ligands). Anything that has week interactions and volatile would be a good candidate.
Dear Shailesh Konda
Can you try CNT hybrid materials is soluble in polar solvents.
Best regard
Hi Alexey,
Yes, I am planning to those for the start. What sort of a experimental protocol should i go for?
Okay!
I am looking for polar solvents, since Palladium comes into the family of noble metals. They are extremely stable at Pd (0) state. Ideal solvent am looking for is the one with high polarity and volatility.
I am afraid discussion is highly hypothetical and far from real case. If you start with unmodified 'nano'particles of Palladium they likely are highly agglomerated metal power. Then highly unlikely that you can disperse them down to nanosize. In addition high density will cause them to separate fast.
When you want to obtain a nanoparticle dispersion it is more promising to search for a route to synthesize and stabilize them in the desired environment.
I have some control over the degree of agglomeration of Palladium nanoparticles. Our synthesize route is in a gas phase aerosol environment. Due to which am starting with a Pd(0) nanoparticles as my first step towards dispersion.
I do understand your concern, it is not easy or trivial to disperse unmodified nanoparticles in solvents.
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