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Synthesis SiC nanoparticles from foamed plastic wastes

DONG-HUA WANG1,* , XIN FU1

Affiliation

  1. College of Chemistry and Life Science, Weinan Teachers University, Weinan 714000, PR China

Abstract

A simple method is proposed to synthesize small SiC nanoparticles，in which foam plastic wastes and tetraethoxysilane (TEOS) were respectively employed as carbon and silica precursors. X-ray powder diffraction patterns (XRD) indicates that the product is 3C-SiC. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) images show that the SiC samples were nanoparticles. Dynamic light scattering (DLS) indicates that The SiC nanoparticles have dimensions in the range of 10-40 nm. The SiC nanoparticles with smaller size have better reinforcement effect in epoxy resin and exhibit different photoluminescence properties..

Keywords

Foamed plastic waste; SiC nanoparticle; Carbothermal reduction.

Submitted at: March 26, 2012
Accepted at: June 6, 2012

Citation

DONG-HUA WANG, XIN FU, Synthesis SiC nanoparticles from foamed plastic wastes, Journal of Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials Vol. 14, Iss. 5-6, pp. 478-482 (2012)