Method for producing metallic microparticles

Phillips, Jonathan; Perry, William L.; Kroenke, William J.

Method for producing metallic microparticles

Patent · 29 June 2004

OSTI ID:1174918

Phillips, Jonathan; Perry, William L.; Kroenke, William J.

Method for producing metallic particles. The method converts metallic nanoparticles into larger, spherical metallic particles. An aerosol of solid metallic nanoparticles and a non-oxidizing plasma having a portion sufficiently hot to melt the nanoparticles are generated. The aerosol is directed into the plasma where the metallic nanoparticles melt, collide, join, and spheroidize. The molten spherical metallic particles are directed away from the plasma and enter the afterglow where they cool and solidify.

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Research Organization:: The Regents of the University of California, Los Alamos, NM (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE

DOE Contract Number:: W-7405-ENG-36

Assignee:: University Of California, The Regents Of

Patent Number(s):: 6,755,886

Application Number:: 10/126,039

OSTI ID:: 1174918

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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