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Titanium white modification with silica nanoparticles and formation of structured clusters on vibrating screen

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The behaviour of titanium white (TiO2) particles with particle size smaller than 45 μm during the modification with nanoparticles (5–50 nm) of hydrophobic silica powder on the vibrating screen and following examination of the newly formed particle clusters is described. Using the vibrating screen aerated in certain places using loudspeaker the subsequent fluidization of the titania particles via simultaneous modification with silica was achieved. The particles of titania are being less cohesively bounded, the van der Walls are weaker and flowability of the system is radically improved. By the targeted fluidization of regions on the screen, was possible to experiment with resulting shapes of particle clusters from the nanoparticles of silica and titanium white in this research. Resulting structure can appear at approximately 2 s of 222.32 Hz excitation using loudspeaker acoustic waves. Methyl groups of hydrophobic nanoparticles of silica can be source for advanced surface applications.

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The paper has been done in connection with the Innovative and additive manufacturing technology–new technological solutions for 3D printing of metals and composite materials project, reg. no. CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/17 049/0008407 financed by the Structural Founds of Europe Union and the SGS SP2019/101 Student Grant Competition–Transport Science and Research–Transport Simulation, Adhesive Models and Storage Processes project. This work was supported by the European Regional Development Fund in the IT4Innovations national supercomputing center - path to exascale project, project number CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/16_013/0001791 within the Operational Programme Research, Development and Education., Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport of the Czech Republic SP2019/50, SP2020/72 and SP2019/24, SP 2020/08 partially supported the research.

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  1. Institute of Transport, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, 17. Listopadu 2172/15, 70800, Ostrava-Poruba, Czech Republic

    Aleš Slíva, Robert Brázda & Aleš Procházka

  2. Nanotechnology Centre, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, 17. Listopadu 2172/15, 70800, Ostrava-Poruba, Czech Republic

    Karla Čech Barabaszová & Gražyna Simha Martynková

  3. Department of Machining, Assembly and Engineering Metrology, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, 17. Listopadu 2172/15, 70800, Ostrava-Poruba, Czech Republic

    Jana Petrů

  4. IT4Innovations Centre of Excellence, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, 17. Listopadu 15/2172, 70833, Ostrava-Poruba, Czech Republic

    Gražyna Simha Martynková

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Slíva, A., Brázda, R., Procházka, A. et al. Titanium white modification with silica nanoparticles and formation of structured clusters on vibrating screen. Granular Matter 22, 64 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10035-020-01032-y

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