Overcoming the Inhibition Effects of Citrate: Precipitation of Ferromagnetic Magnetite Nanoparticles with Tunable Morphology,Magnetic Properties,and Surface Charge via Ferrous Citrate Oxidation

This study demonstrates how the method of thermally assisted oxidative precipitation in water can be opened for—the so far neglected—metal organic iron(II) complexes (herein: citrate) in order to obtain, in one step, ferromagnetic magnetite nanoparticles, possessing essential ligand properties. Based on a dedicated analysis of the specific precursor in combination with the consideration of known properties of the ligand, it is possible to identify existing inhibition-attributes of the iron organyl such that these can be overcome. Moreover, they can be exploited in a targeted manner; thus, simply by changing concentrations, a variety of magnetite nanoparticle morphologies with distinct properties can be obtained. In the case of the herein investigated ferrous citrate, three major inhibition effects are identified. While two of them efficiently prevent the formation of magnetite and need to be addressed to be overcome, the third can be exploited to selectively synthesize, for example, relatively stable carboxyl group-bearing nuclei clusters, exhibiting the properties of magnetically responsive photonic crystals, or relatively large mesocrystals, whose intraparticular magnetic interactions are apparently disturbed.     

Some Problems of Nonlinear Dynamics of Turbulent Thermals

Radiophysics and Quantum Electronics - A well-known simplified model of turbulent convection from local sources of buoyancy and/or momentum acting for a short time has been developed and...     

Quaternion Attitude Determination by Vector Measurement

International Applied Mechanics - Quaternion attitude determination algorithms based on vector measurements are proposed. The projections of the normalized vectors in the reference and the...     

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Temperature Properties of Dielectric Permittivity and Optical Properties of a Multilayer Structure of Variozone Barium–Strontium Titanate

Physics of the Solid State - Optical properties and the temperature dependence of the permittivity of a multilayer structure of a variozone ferroelectric barium-strontium titanate deposited on a...     

Valley Magnetization of Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Monolayers

JETP Letters - It is shown that the intrinsic magnetization of transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers calculated within the two-band model depends significantly on the boundary conditions on...     

Development of Experimental Research of Turbulent Surface Pressure Fluctuations: Critical Analysis and Generalization of Accumulated Experimental Data

Acoustical Physics - The article reviews the current state of experimental research into near-wall turbulent pressures. In recent decades, a large number of applied, theoretical, and experimental...     

Microdomain Engineering in Waveguide and Layered Structures Based on Ferroelectrics for Applications in Photonic Elements (Brief Review)

JETP Letters - Studies of ferroelectric nano- and microdomain structures formed in LiNbO3-based optical waveguides are reviewed. Nanodomain structures of a given configuration have been written in...     

Formation of High-Order Structures in Solution by CBS-Pyrophosphatase from D. hafniense

Crystallography Reports - To solve the question about the oligomeric state of wild-type CBS-pyrophosphatase (CBS-PPase) from D. hafniense, this enzyme has been studied using two independent...