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A facile synthesis of magnetite single-crystal particles by employing GO sheets as template for promising application in magnetic fluid

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It was reported a facile strategy to fabricate magnetite (Fe3O4) single-crystal particles with critical single-domain size by employing graphene oxide (GO) sheets as template. In this method, the small-sized Fe2O3 nanoparticles were first synthesized, and then low-temperature annealing under H2 would convert them into large-sized Fe3O4 single-crystal particles. The synthetic particles with an average size of 100 nm exhibit high saturation magnetization (Ms) of 0.085 A·m2·g−1, which is very close to theoretical value, being among the highest values in ever reported for Fe3O4 made from chemical methods. On this basis, the small-sized Fe3O4 particles (average size of 30 nm) were also fabricated by coating with Na2CO3 shell.

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This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 51701109).

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    Zhen Qin, Jian-Kang Zhi & Yong-Ling Fu

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Qin, Z., Ma, ZH., Zhi, JK. et al. A facile synthesis of magnetite single-crystal particles by employing GO sheets as template for promising application in magnetic fluid. Rare Met. 38, 764–769 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12598-018-1197-5

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