Bench Top Process and Their Scalability for Industrial Production of Nanoparticles Insights

Abstract

Production of nanoparticles at industrial scale is certainly required in near future as they are getting successfully executed in different emerging technological areas. Therefore, the scalability will be the one of the most important criteria with respect to the market demands of the nanoparticles. Some of the bench top models experiments are very expensive and may not be approved for the industrial production. The two most important nanocrystals fabrications process in the colloidal phase can be divided to two categories are heat-up and hot-injection method which is successfully used to produce the nanocrystals at the laboratory scale in very economical way. Additionally, both the process is capable of producing nanoparticles with good control on their shape and size. However, these methods have some limitations with respect to the precursor. This review will focus on nucleation and growth process in heat-up and hot-injection method and their pros and cons in scalability at industrial scale with emphasis on quantum dot, iron oxide nanoparticles and sodium lanthanum fluoride.