Millifluidics: Developing a Millifluidic Platform for the Synthesis of Ultrasmall Nanoclusters: Ultrasmall Copper Nanoclusters as a Case Study (Small 5/2012)

The image features the concept of a millifluidic platform for the controlled synthesis of nanomaterials–an alternative to difficult-to-fabricate, expensive, and complex microfluidic reactors. The millifluidic platform offers a transformative approach, which should jump-start the commercialization of lab-on-a-chip devices for the large-scale production of nanomaterials; it enables better control over size and the ability to probe reactions in situ. Ultrasmall copper nanoclusters are synthesized with the help of ligands in the system, and X-ray absorption near-edge structure (XANES) investigations confirm the possibility of atomically precise control.