QI HongZhang1,2,YAN Biao1,LI ChengKui1,2 & LU Wei1,2* 1 School of Materials Science and Engineering,Tongji University,Shanghai 200092,China,2 Shanghai Key Laboratory of D&A for Metal-Functional Materials
Abstract:
Water-soluble magnetite nanocrystals have been prepared by one-step non-alkoxide sol-gel method.The magnetic properties of magnetite nanocrystals obtained are size dependent.The experimental results also reveal that 2-pyrrolidone not only serves as solvent,but also involves surface coordination which renders the magnetite nanoparticles water-soluble and colloidal solution stable.Although the current synthetic approach is a small modification to the non-alkoxide sol-gel method,it allows us to directly obtain...