DOI

  • Stephan Müssig
  • Vanessa M. Koch
  • Carlos Collados Cuadrado
  • Julien Bachmann
  • Matthias Thommes
  • Maïssa K.S. Barr
  • Karl Mandel

Spray-drying is a scalable process enabling one to assemble freely chosen nanoparticles into supraparticles. Atomic layer deposition (ALD) allows for controlled thin film deposition of a vast variety of materials including exotic ones that can hardly be synthesized by wet chemical methods. The properties of coated supraparticles are defined not only by the nanoparticle material chosen and the nanostructure adjusted during spray-drying but also by surface functionalities modified by ALD, if ALD is capable of modifying not only the outer surfaces but also surfaces buried inside the porous supraparticle. Simultaneously, surface accessibility in the porous supraparticles must be ensured to make use of all functionalized surfaces. In this work, iron oxide supraparticles are utilized as a model substrate as their magnetic properties enable the use of advanced magnetic characterization methods. Detailed information about the structural evolution upon individual ALD cycles of aluminium oxide, zinc oxide and titanium dioxide are thereby revealed and confirmed by gas sorption analyses. This demonstrates a powerful and versatile approach to freely designing the functionality of future materials by combination of spray-drying and ALD.

Original languageEnglish
Article number2101296
Number of pages11
JournalSmall Methods
Volume6
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 20 Jan 2022

    Research areas

  • atomic layer deposition, spray-drying, supraparticles, MAGNETIC-PROPERTIES, PARTICLES, NANOPARTICLES, FUNCTIONALIZATION, CLUSTERS, NITROGEN

    Scopus subject areas

  • Chemistry(all)
  • Materials Science(all)

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