Summary
With the support of the Macromolecular, Supramolecular and Nanochemistry Program in the Division of Chemistry, Yuanbing Mao of the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) and Tao Li of Northern Illinois University (NIU) will investigate the molten salt synthesis of metal oxide nanoparticles. Nanoparticles are attracting wide interest due to their exceptional properties enabling a wide range of applications in clean energy, photonics, pharmaceutical industry and more. Molten salt synthesis has emerged as a reliable and scalable method to synthesize different types of nanoparticles. In these stud
