Continuous Flow Copper Laser Ablation Synthesis of Copper(I and II) Oxide Nanoparticles in Water

Ahmed Hussein Mohammed Al-Antaki; Xuan Luo; XiaoFei Duan; Robert N Lamb; Wayne D Hutchison; Warren Lawrance; Colin L Raston

doi:10.1021/acsomega.9b01983

Continuous Flow Copper Laser Ablation Synthesis of Copper(I and II) Oxide Nanoparticles in Water

ACS Omega. 2019 Aug 7;4(8):13577-13584. doi: 10.1021/acsomega.9b01983. eCollection 2019 Aug 20.

Authors

Ahmed Hussein Mohammed Al-Antaki^{1

2}, Xuan Luo^{1

1}, XiaoFei Duan³, Robert N Lamb³, Wayne D Hutchison⁴, Warren Lawrance¹, Colin L Raston¹

Affiliations

¹ Flinders Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology, College of Science and Engineering, Centre for Marine Bioproducts Development, College of Medicine and Public Health and College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, Adelaide, SA 5042, Australia.
² Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Sciences, Kufa University, Kufa, 54001 Najaf, Iraq.
³ Trace Analysis for Chemical, Earth and Environmental Sciences (TrACEES), University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC 3010, Australia.
⁴ School of Science, University of New South Wales, ADFA campus, Canberra BC, ACT 2610, Australia.

Abstract

Copper(I) oxide (Cu₂O) nanoparticles (NPs) are selectively prepared in high yields under continuous flow in a vortex fluidic device (VFD), involving irradiation of a copper rod using a pulsed laser operating at 1064 nm and 600 mJ. The plasma plume generated inside a glass tube (20 mm O.D.), which is rapidly rotating (7.5 k rpm), reacts with the enclosed air in the microfluidic platform, with then high mass transfer of material into the dynamic thin film of water passing up the tube. The average size of the generated Cu₂ONPs is 14 nm, and they are converted to copper(II) oxide (CuO) nanoparticles with an average diameter of 11 nm by heating the as-prepared solution of Cu₂ONPs in air at 50 °C for 10 h.