In the JST Strategic Basic Research Programs, Furuya
Metal and Professor Hiroshi Kitagawa, Graduate School of Science,
Kyoto University, have developed mass production technology that
enables the continuous synthesis of several nm solid-solution alloy
particles, which had previously been difficult to achieve. With
this technology, we succeeded in achieving a stable and continuous
synthesis of 1nm-class solid-solution alloy nanoparticles and their
supported catalysts, which were difficult to obtain using general
methods of liquid phase reduction reaction (Fig. 1).