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JOURNAL OF NANOPARTICLE RESEARCH
Volume 19, Issue 9, Pages -Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11051-017-4001-9
Keywords
Nano-Cu2O; In situ microcalorimetry; Reaction kinetics; Size effect; Temperature effect; Nanomaterials; Thermodynamics
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21273050, 21573048]
- Guangxi Colleges and Universities Key Laboratory of Food Safety and Pharmaceutical Analytical Chemistry of Guangxi University for Nationalities Graduate Education [gxun-chxzs 2016120]
- Innovation Project of Guangxi University for Nationalities Graduate Education [gxun-chxzs 2016120]
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The activities, selectivities, and stabilities of nanoparticles in heterogeneous reactions are size-dependent. In order to investigate the influencing laws of particle size and temperature on kinetic parameters in heterogeneous reactions, cubic nano-Cu2O particles of four different sizes in the range of 40-120 nm have been controllably synthesized. In situ microcalorimetry has been used to attain thermodynamic data on the reaction of Cu2O with aqueous HNO3 and, combined with thermodynamic principles and kinetic transition-state theory, the relevant reaction kinetic parameters have been evaluated. The size dependences of the kinetic parameters are discussed in terms of the established kinetic model and the experimental results. It was found that the reaction rate constants increased with decreasing particle size. Accordingly, the apparent activation energy, pre-exponential factor, activation enthalpy, activation entropy, and activation Gibbs energy decreased with decreasing particle size. The reaction rate constants and activation Gibbs energies increased with increasing temperature. Moreover, the logarithms of the apparent activation energies, pre-exponential factors, and rate constants were found to be linearly related to the reciprocal of particle size, consistent with the kinetic models. The influence of particle size on these reaction kinetic parameters may be explained as follows: the apparent activation energy is affected by the partial molar enthalpy, the pre-exponential factor is affected by the partial molar entropy, and the reaction rate constant is affected by the partial molar Gibbs energy.
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