磁性纳米包覆微球的制备和磁性表征

以胶体球形粒子为基体发展起来的纳米包覆(nano鄄coating)技术近来引起人们的极大兴趣,这种纳米包覆技术得到的产物常常被称为核壳粒子(core鄄shellparticles)。这种包覆一般是将纳米颗粒直接吸附在核微球上,或者包覆材料控制沉淀在核微球上1,2]。这些复合微球常常展现出独特的光、电、力学、化学、催化等性质,因而具有广泛的研究和应用前景3~7]。近十几年来,用做磁感应成像的超顺磁材料得到了深入的研究4]。一方面,磁性颗粒的尺寸、电荷和表面成分对其应用有很大影响8,9],另一方面,材料的磁学性质又主要取决于磁颗粒的大小10]。Xu和Lindlar制备了含超顺磁颗粒的聚合物胶体颗粒,被用于构建超顺磁性的光子晶体11,12]。在聚合物微粒上包覆氧化铁颗粒通常采用表面沉淀或表面改性官能团诱导反应包覆的方法。但这些方法不能很好控制复合微粒的均一性和表面平整性;Caruso的层鄄层包覆法(Layer鄄byLayer)虽然实现了磁性颗粒包覆13],然而这种方法非常繁琐而不利于广泛应用。本文报道了一种新的合成磁性包覆颗粒的方法,即以聚合物微球为基核,通过非均相种子生长法包覆磁性纳米颗粒,并研究了...

Preparation and Magnetic Properties of Magnetic Composite Microspheres

A novel method of fabricating core-shell structure, comprising monodisperse polystyrene (PS) spheres as cores and Fe₃O₄ as shells, is demonstrated. The coating shell of magnetite (Fe₃O₄) crystallites was formed by controlled hydrolysis of aqueous solutions of iron ion with diethyleneglycol (DEG) either by the facile, electrostatic absorption between the polymer and iron compounds. Thickness of the shell could be easily changed in the range from 20 to 60 nm by using slow-injecting coating process. Structure and composition of iron compounds shell were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), thermo-gravimetric analysis (TG) and vibrating-sample magnetometer (VSM), indicating there are some differences between the Fe₃O₄-shell of the magnetic composite spheres and pure Fe₃O₄ particles, e.g. smaller crystallite size, lower magnetic transition temperature and weaker ferromagnetic character.