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Supercritical Hydrothermal Synthesis of Inorganic Nanomaterials

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Nanomaterials are always at the leading emerging area of material and nanotechnology. Especially in this age, the ever-increasing population in the world makes energy, chemicals and other resource efficiency particularly important in sustaining concept [1]. The significant reduction in size (1–100 nm) often improves their electronic and other properties due to quantum confinement effects.

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  1. Key Laboratory of Thermo-Fluid Science and Engineering, Ministry of Education, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

    Shuzhong Wang, Donghai Xu, Yang Guo & Yanhui Li

  2. School of Marine Sciences, Guangxi University, Nanning, Guangxi, China

    Xingying Tang

  3. Department of Printing, Packaging Engineering and Digital Media Technology, Xi’an University of Technology, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

    Yuzhen Wang

  4. Institute of Water Resources and Hydro-electric Engineering, Xi’an University of Technology, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

    Jie Zhang

  5. Department of Thermal Engineering, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan, Shaanxi, China

    Honghe Ma

  6. Department of Energy and Power Engineering, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, Jiangsu, China

    Lili Qian

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Wang, S. et al. (2020). Supercritical Hydrothermal Synthesis of Inorganic Nanomaterials. In: Supercritical Water Processing Technologies for Environment, Energy and Nanomaterial Applications. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9326-6_5

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