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NANOSAFE 2012: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES ON SAFE PRODUCTION AND USE OF NANOMATERIALS
Volume 429, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/429/1/012049
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- New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization of Japan (NEDO) [P10024]
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We investigated the particle release caused by the grinding of polystyrene-based composites with and without single-wall carbon nanotubes (CNTs). In the results of real-time aerosol monitoring, considerable increases in the number concentration of nano-sized aerosol particles were observed during the grinding of both CNT-containing and CNT-free polystyrene. When a thermodenuder was used, the number of released nanoparticles was reduced by over 99.9%, indicating that the nanoparticles were presumably volatile particles released by the friction heat produced by grinding the composite. In an electron microscopic analysis of the aerosol particles, micron-sized particles with protruding fibers (probably CNTs) were observed, whereas free-standing CNTs were not observed.
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