METHODS AND DEVICES FOR FACILE FABRICATION OF NANOPARTICLES AND THEIR APPLICATIONS

摘要

The invention provides devices and methods to fabricate nanoparticles by reverse micelle and related methods, and applications for these nanoparticles. The method allows to fabricate a myriad of high quality nanoparticles in a repeatable way. These nanoparticles include multilayered spherical and rodlike particles that may have inorganic, organic, polymeric, biological layers. The invention further provides methods to optimize the quality of the nanoparticles. The fabrication method is based on accurate control of the microfluidics, and the chemical composition of the reaction mixture (203). This is made possible by an in-line monitoring system and microprocessor control of the various physical and chemical parameters. In the method pure solvent (501) is pumped into the perimeter of the capillary tube (504) parallel with the reagent solutions (201, 202).