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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 128, Issue 31, Pages 10054-10059Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ja061674y
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Ultrasmall superparamagnetic iron oxide (USPIO) particles were structurally characterized in situ in an aqueous dilute suspension by energy dispersive X-ray diffraction (EDXD) and ex situ as powders obtained by lyophilization of the suspension by angular dispersive X-ray diffraction (ADXD) at 20 degrees C. Structural parameters obtained by the Rietveld method on ADXD data were used as starting parameters for modeling the structure of the particles in suspension. Although each particle is a single crystal, as evidenced by conventional X-ray diffraction, our results indicate that the structural order, specific to a crystal, does not extend to the entire volume of the particle. In fact, each individual particle, averagely, has a crystalline structural extension ca. 4.0 nm smaller than the apparent dimensions obtained by both ADXD and TEM (ca. 8.0 nm).
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