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A facile method for the synthesis of magnetite nanocrystals

K. KUMAR1, H.-L. HSU1, R. SELVIN1,*

Affiliation

  1. Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, Lunghwa University of Science and Technology, No.300, Sec. 1, Wanshou Rd., Gueishan Shiang, Taoyuan County 333, Taiwan (R.O.C.)

Abstract

Magnetite Nanocrystals (Fe3O4) have been synthesized by thermal decomposition synthesis method using Fe(acac)3 and Tri-Octylamine and Oleic acid at a low temperature of 250 0C compared to other methods. The phase formation for the obtained product was confirmed by powder X-ray diffraction (XRD) and the morphology was analyzed by Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM). XRD patterns reveal the formation of Magentite (Fe3O4) structure in single phase with good crystallinity and TEM pictures shows the formation of mono disperse cubical particles and the size of the particles was found to be around 15 nm which is in accordance with dxrd. The concentration of oleic acid was varied and to study the morphological changes.

Keywords

Magnetite, Decomposition method, Nanoparticles, Iron oxide.

Citation

K. KUMAR, H.-L. HSU, R. SELVIN, A facile method for the synthesis of magnetite nanocrystals, Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials - Rapid Communications, 4, 10, October 2010, pp.1628-1630 (2010).

Submitted at: May 3, 2010

Accepted at: Oct. 14, 2010