Synthesis of Fe₃O₄ Magnetic Nanoparticles in a Helical Microreactor

Abstract:

Fe₃O₄ nanoparticles (NPs) have previously been employed in various fields owing to their unique physical and chemical properties. In this paper, Fe₃O₄ NPs are prepared by co-precipitation method in a helical microreactor under different reaction conditions which affect the size of Fe₃O₄ NPs. The product is characterized by FT-IR and XPS. Also, VSM characterization shows that Fe₃O₄ exhibits typical superparamagnetic behavior and the saturation magnetization of NPs is 53 emu/g.

• Periodical: Key Engineering Materials (Volume 842)
• Pages: 174-181
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.842.174
• Online since: May 2020
• Authors: Dan Wang, Mudassir Iqbal*, Ming Qiao Zhu
• Keywords: Co-Precipitation, Fe₃O₄, Helical Microreactor, Nanoparticles

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