Hot Walled Reactor


The hot wall reactor is a scale up process of nanowire synthesis. Our group makes nanowires using quartz as a substrate where the amount of nanowires made is limited by the size of the quartz. As of today, we use slide glass sized quartz for nanowire synthesis. The hot wall reactor uses a tube furnace to heat a two inch quartz tube in a nine inch heating zone. Our hope is to grow nanowires along the whole heating zone of the tube in order to make bulk quantities of nanowires to use in other areas of our research.