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Article history: Superparamagnetic Fe3O4 nanoparticles have been successfully synthesized under hydrothermal
Received 25 June 2014 condition with the assistant of ionic liquid 1-hexadecyl-3-methylimidazolium chloride ([C16mim]Cl). The
Received in revised form 17 October 2014 structure and morphology of the sample have been investigated by X-ray diffraction (XRD), X-ray
Accepted 8 November 2014
photoelectron spectra (XPS), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), and high-resolution TEM
Available online 11 November 2014
(HRTEM), and the results indicate that the as-synthesized inverse spinel Fe3O4 nanoparticles have an
average diameter of about 10 nm and exhibit relatively good dispersity. More importantly, it is found that
Keywords:
[C16mim]Cl acts as stabilizer for the Fe3O4 nanoparticles by adsorbing on the particles surfaces to prevent
A. Magnetic materials
B. Chemical synthesis
the agglomeration. In addition, the obtained superparamagnetic Fe3O4 nanoparticles have a saturation
B. Magnetic properties magnetization of 67.69 emu/g at 300 K.
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Fig. 2. (a) TEM image of the as-synthesized Fe3O4 NPs; (b) HRTEM image of a typical Fe3O4 NPs with the electron beam incident along the [0 0 1] direction, and the inset of (a)
is its FFT pattern.
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Fig. 3. (a) Crystal structure of cubic Fe3O4; (b) adsorption of [C16mim]+ on the
surfaces of the Fe3O4 NPs. Fig. 5. Zero-eld-cooled (ZFC) and eld-cooled (FC) curves for the Fe3O4 NPs.
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Fig. 6. Hysteresis loop of the Fe3O4 NPs at 300 K, and the inset is the corresponding hysteresis loop on a large scale.
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