Production of highly dispersed sodium chloride: Strategy and experiment

Abstract

Various methods for obtaining highly dispersed sodium chloride in the form of powders and sols in organic solvents were studied and compared. These include the mechanical grinding in a ball mill, laser ablation, cryochemical method, solvent-substitution method, pyrolysis of an aerosol, and a number of chemical methods. The samples obtained were examined by X-ray diffraction, elemental analysis, transmission electron microscopy, and dynamic light scattering technique. The methods for obtaining highly dispersed NaCl were compared in three basic parameters: size of particles being obtained, their size distribution, and productivity. It was shown that, depending on a method used, sodium chloride particles with average sizes in the range from 15–30 nm to 10–20 μm can be obtained.