A Facile Solvothermal Synthesis of Octahedral Fe3 O4 Nanoparticles

Frances Ooi; Joseph S DuChene; Jingjing Qiu; Jeremy O Graham; Mark H Engelhard; Guixin Cao; Zheng Gai; Wei David Wei

doi:10.1002/smll.201401954

A Facile Solvothermal Synthesis of Octahedral Fe3 O4 Nanoparticles

Small. 2015 Jun 10;11(22):2649-53. doi: 10.1002/smll.201401954. Epub 2015 Jan 26.

Authors

Frances Ooi¹, Joseph S DuChene¹, Jingjing Qiu¹, Jeremy O Graham¹, Mark H Engelhard², Guixin Cao³, Zheng Gai³, Wei David Wei¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Chemistry and Center for Nanostructured Electronic Materials, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 32611, USA.
² Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, 99354, USA.
³ Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, 37831, USA.

PMID: 25620676
DOI: 10.1002/smll.201401954

Abstract

Anisotropic Fe3 O4 octahedrons are obtained via a simple solvothermal synthesis with appropriate sizes for various technological applications. A complete suite of materials characterization methods confirms the magnetite phase for these structures, which exhibit substantial saturation magnetization and intriguing morphologies for a wide range of applications.

Keywords: Fe3O4; anisotropic nanostructures; magnetic nanoparticles; magnetite.