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One-pot hydrothermal synthesis of an assembly of magnetite nanoneedles on a scaffold of cyclic-diphenylalanine nanorods

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The assembly of metal oxide nanoparticles (NPs) on a biomolecular template by a one-pot hydrothermal synthesis method is achieved for the first time. Magnetite (Fe3O4) nanoneedles (length: ~100 nm; width: ~10 nm) were assembled on cyclic-diphenylalanine (cFF) nanorods (length: 2–10 μm; width: 200 nm). The Fe3O4 nanoneedles and cFF nanorods were simultaneously synthesized from FeSO4 and l-phenylalanine by hydrothermal synthesis (220 °C and 22 MPa), respectively. The samples were analyzed by powder X-ray diffraction (XRD), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (IR), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), and superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) magnetometry. Experimental results indicate that Fe3O4 nanoneedles were assembled on cFF nanorods during the hydrothermal reaction. The composite contained 3.3 wt% Fe3O4 nanoneedles without any loss of the original magnetic properties of Fe3O4.

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This work was partly supported in part by a Grant-in-Aid for the COE project Giant Molecules and Complex Systems, 2002.

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  1. Advanced Institute for Material Research, Tohoku University, 2-1-1, Katahira, Aoba-ku, Sendai, 980-8577, Japan

    Takanari Togashi & Tadafumi Adschiri

  2. Department of Biomolecular Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University, Aoba 6-6-11-608 Aramaki, Aoba-ku, Sendai, 980-8579, Japan

    Mitsuo Umetsu

  3. Innovative Materials Engineering Laboratory, National Institute for Material Science, Sengen 1-2-1, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-0047, Japan

    Takashi Naka

  4. Joining and Welding Research Institute, Osaka University, 11-1 Mihogaoka, Ibaraki, Osaka, 567-0047, Japan

    Satoshi Ohara

  5. Institute for Multidisciplinary for Advanced Material, Tohoku University, 2-1-1 Katahira, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi, 980-8577, Japan

    Yoshiharu Hatakeyama

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Togashi, T., Umetsu, M., Naka, T. et al. One-pot hydrothermal synthesis of an assembly of magnetite nanoneedles on a scaffold of cyclic-diphenylalanine nanorods. J Nanopart Res 13, 3991–3999 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11051-011-0324-0

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