University of Arkansas

The United States of America, As Represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services

Dan Lupu

Alexandru S Biris

Jon Gardner Wilkes

Dan Alexander Buzatu

Jerry Darsey

Dwight Wayne Miller

Alexandru Radu Biris

An apparatus and method for synthesizing nanostructures. In one embodiment, the apparatus includes a reactor having a reaction zone and a conductive susceptor positioned in the reaction zone. The method includes the steps of transporting a gas mixture having an aerosolized catalyst, a feedstock and a carrier gas into the reaction zone of the reactor, inductively heating the reaction zone, and regulating a flow rate of the gas mixture to allow the catalyst to spend a sufficient amount of time in the reaction zone for the growth of nanostructures.

Apparatus and methods for synthesis of large size batches of carbon nanostructures

An apparatus for synthesizing nanostructures. In one embodiment, the apparatus includes a heating device that defines a reaction zone therein and a susceptor made of a ferromagnetic material with a Curie temperature and placed in the reaction zone, where the Curie temperature substantially corresponds to a temperature at which the growth of desired nanostructures occurs and the heating device is capable of heating the susceptor substantially at the Curie temperature.

Production of nanostructures by curie point induction heating

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Cluj Napoca, Romania

Dan Lupu