Scalable synthesis of aluminium oxide nanoparticle for cost minimization in battery electrode

Abstract

Nanoparticle is hard to produce because the process is difficult, and the material amount is always insufficient. In conjunction, a high amount of cost will be used to produce nanoparticle. In addition, the current material to produce nanoparticle are expensive, hard to obtain and depleting. Hence, Aluminium oxide (Al2O3) was introduced to solve the problem exist with the current nanoparticle. In this paper, research was conducted for the manufacturer to provide a large amount of fine Al2O3 nanoparticle hence cost saving. Electric Discharge Machine (EDM) was used to produce the nanoparticle. Several stages will be drafted put in this paper in order to achieve the objectives. The stages involved was developed a new chamber for Al2O3. The next stage is to use this device and synthesis of the nanoparticle. This research is followed by extraction of the nanoparticle. Then, the samples were measured and characterize the Al2O3 nanoparticle. Currently, the size of Al2O3 nanoparticle obtained is 800nm. Hence, the experiment will be proceeded in order to achieve Al2O3 nanoparticle size from 1nm to 100nm. The aluminium nanoparticle should be improved in all aspects compare to the current material nanoparticle.