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Controlled Synthesis of Iron Oxide Nanoparticles over a Wide Size Range

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LANGMUIR
Volume 26, Issue 8, Pages 5843-5847

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AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/la903767e

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  1. Spanish MEC [NAN2004-08805-004-02, MAT2006-03999, CSD2006-00012]
  2. Catalan DURSI [2005SGR0969]
  3. Institut Catala de Nanotecnologia (ICN)

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We report on the effect of using decanoic acid as capping ligand on the synthesis or iron oxide nanoparticles by thermal decomposition of an organic iron precursor in organic medium. This procedure allowed us to control the particle size within 5 run and about 30 nm by modifying the precursor-to-capping ligand ratio in a systematic fashion and to further expand the particle size range up to about 50 nm by adjusting the final synthesis temperature. The nanoparticles also showed high saturation magnetization of about 80-83 emu/g temperature. almost size-independent and close to the value for the bulk counterpart. Decanoic acid-coated nanoparticles were transferred to water by using tetramethylammonium hydroxide, which allowed further coating with silica in a tetraethyl orthosilicate solution. Consequently, these iron oxide nanoparticles are tunable in size and highly magnetic, and they could become suitable candidates for various biomedical applications such as contrast agents for magnetic resonance imaging and magnetic carriers for drug delivery.

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