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Chem Commun (Camb). 2010 Sep 07;46(33):6108-10. doi: 10.1039/c0cc01179g. Epub 2010 Jul 26.

Heating rate influence on the synthesis of iron oxide nanoparticles: the case of decanoic acid.

Chemical communications (Cambridge, England)

Pablo Guardia, Jorge Pérez-Juste, Amílcar Labarta, Xavier Batlle, Luis M Liz-Marzán

Affiliations

  1. Departament de Física Fonamental and Institut de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia, Universitat de Barcelona, 08028 Barcelona, Spain.

PMID: 20661498 DOI: 10.1039/c0cc01179g

Abstract

Iron oxide nanoparticles with uniform sizes between 13 nm and 180 nm can be selectively prepared through the "heating up" thermal decomposition method by using decanoic acid and carefully tuning the heating rate.

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