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Water Dispersible Fe/Fe-Oxide Core-Shell Structured Nanoparticles for Potential Biomedical Applications

Dept. of Phys. & Astron., Univ. of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA
IEEE Transactions on Magnetics (impact factor: 1.36). 11/2009; DOI:10.1109/TMAG.2009.2026629
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ABSTRACT In this paper, we report the synthesis and characterization of water dispersible core-shell structured Fe/Fe-oxide with average size 13 plusmn1.4 nm and Fe-oxide nanoparticles. Unlike the previously reported different approaches, both types of particles can be synthesized by following the same route with a small variation in the Fe(CO)5 molar concentration and oxygen free environments. The oleate/oleylamine coated nanoparticles were surface modified with tetra-methyl-ammonium-hydroxide (TMAOH) to make them water dispersible. TGA analysis provided direct evidence that TMAOH adds to the surface of the oleic acid and oleylamine coated particles making them well disperse and stable in water as is suggested from the zeta potential measurements also.

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Keywords

average size 13 plusmn1.4 nm
 
Fe(CO)<sub>5</sub> molar concentration
 
Fe-oxide nanoparticles
 
Fe/Fe-oxide
 
nanoparticles
 
oleic acid
 
oxygen free environments
 
particles
 
reported different approaches
 
small variation
 
tetra-methyl-ammonium-hydroxide
 
water dispersible
 
water dispersible core-shell
 
zeta potential measurements
 

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