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PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Volume 13, Issue 30, Pages 13558-13564Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c1cp21518c
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- Conselho Nacional de Pesquisas (CNPq)
- Instituto Nacional de Ciencia e Tecnologia de Catalise em Sistemas Moleculares e Nanoestruturados (INCT-CMN)
- Coordenacao de Aperfeicoamento de Pessoal de Nivel Superior (CAPES)
- Fundacao de Apoio a Pesquisa do Distrito Federal (FAPDF)
- Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Sao Paulo (FAPESP)
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This work describes an easy synthesis (one pot) of MFe2O4 (M = Co, Fe, Mn, and Ni) magnetic nanoparticles MNPs by the thermal decomposition of Fe(Acac)(3)/M(Acac)(2) by using BMI center dot NTf2 (1-n-butyl-3-methylimidazolium bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)imide) or BMI center dot PF6 (1-n-butyl-3-methylimidazolium hexafluorophosphate) ionic liquids (ILs) as recycling solvents and oleylamine as the reducing and surface modifier agent. The effects of reaction temperature and reaction time on the features of the magnetic nanomaterials (size and magnetic properties) were investigated. The growth of the MNPs is easily controlled in the IL by adjusting the reaction temperature and time, as inferred from Fe3O4 MNPs obtained at 150 degrees C, 200 degrees C and 250 degrees C with mean diameters of 8, 10 and 15 nm, respectively. However, the thermal decomposition of Fe(Acac)(3) performed in a conventional high boiling point solvent (diphenyl ether, bp 259 degrees C), under a similar Fe to oleylamine molar ratio used in the IL synthesis, does not follow the same growth mechanism and rendered only smaller NPs of 5 nm mean diameter. All MNPs are covered by at least one monolayer of oleylamine making them readily dispersible in non-polar solvents. Besides the influence on the nanoparticles growth, which is important for the preparation of highly crystalline MNPs, the IL was easily recycled and has been used in at least 20 successive syntheses.
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