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One-pot reaction to synthesize superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles by adding phenol as reducing agent and stabilizer

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An improved thermal decomposition method was used to directly prepare water-soluble Fe3O4 magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs) with relatively higher quality via reductive decomposition of ferric acetylacetonate [Fe(acac)3], in the presence of benzyl ether and phenol, in which inexpensive phenol acted as reducing agent and stabilizer, produce the semi phenol-benzoquinone coated on the Fe3O4 and make the Fe3O4·MNPs water-soluble and the colloidal solution stable. By changing the molar ratio of phenol to Fe(acac)3 and reaction time, the size of Fe3O4·MNPs could be varied from 19.3 ± 4.4 nm to 9.7 ± 1.5 nm, with the saturation magnetizations in the range of 51.3–62.9 emu/g.

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The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 81072308, No. 30840067), Shanghai Biomedicine Key Program (No. 10391901700, No. 08391911100), Shanghai Basic Research Key Program (No. 09JC1411500), the Innovation Program of Shanghai Municipal Education Commission (No. 09YZ170).

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    Yuanfeng Wang, Zhanwang Zhu, Feng Xu & Xinlin Wei

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Zhanwang Zhu contributed equally with Yuanfeng Wang, and are the co-first authors for this paper.

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Wang, Y., Zhu, Z., Xu, F. et al. One-pot reaction to synthesize superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles by adding phenol as reducing agent and stabilizer. J Nanopart Res 14, 755 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11051-012-0755-2

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