Synthesis and Characterization of Dendrimer-Encapsulated Iron and Iron-Oxide Nanoparticles Show others and affiliations
2012 (English) In: JOURNAL OF SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND NOVEL MAGNETISM, ISSN 1557-1939, Vol. 25, no 5, p. 1541-1549Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
In this paper, a series of iron (Fe) containing nanoparticles were prepared by employing PAMAM (Poly(amidoamine), dendrimers with different generations (G0-G3) as templates and sodium borohydride as a reducing agent. The products have been characterized by TEM, FT-IR, XRD, VSM, TGA, and XPS. XRD analysis reveal low crystallinity of formed particles within the dendrimers, however, crystallinity of the nanoparticles was observed to increase with increasing generation of dendrimers. Dominant phases were determined as magnetite (Fe3O4 or maghemite, gamma-Fe2O3). XPS analysis revealed the chemical composition of nanoparticles as iron oxide which indicated the oxidation of Fe species subsequent to the reduction process, in agreement with XRD analysis. The magnetization curves have superparamagnetic nonhysteretic characteristic at lower fields and with nonsaturation characteristic at high fields. Magnetic evaluation of samples with the 20:1 molar ratio of Fe:PAMAM showed decreasing superparamagnetic character and decreasing saturation magnetisation with increasing generation of dendrimers.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages 2012. Vol. 25, no 5, p. 1541-1549
Keywords [en]
Dendrimers, PAMAM, Iron nanoparticles, Magnetic properties, XPS
National Category
Condensed Matter Physics
Identifiers URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-99066 DOI: 10.1007/s10948-012-1454-z ISI: 000305523100056 Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-84864579289 OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-99066 DiVA, id: diva2:541560
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2012-07-192012-07-132022-06-24 Bibliographically approved