Facile synthesis of monodisperse superparamagnetic Fe3O4/PMMA composite nanospheres with high magnetization.

Nanotechnology

National Engineering Research Center for Biomaterials, Sichuan University, Chengdu, People's Republic of China.

Published: June 2011

Monodisperse superparamagnetic Fe(3)O(4)/polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) composite nanospheres with high saturation magnetization were successfully prepared by a facile novel miniemulsion polymerization method. The ferrofluid, MMA monomer and surfactants were co-sonicated and emulsified to form stable miniemulsion for polymerization. The samples were characterized by DLS, TEM, FTIR, XRD, TGA and VSM. The diameter of the Fe(3)O(4)/PMMA composite nanospheres by DLS was close to 90 nm with corresponding polydispersity index (PDI) as small as 0.099, which indicated that the nanospheres have excellent homogeneity in aqueous medium. The TEM results implied that the Fe(3)O(4)/PMMA composite nanospheres had a perfect core-shell structure with about 3 nm thin PMMA shells, and the core was composed of many homogeneous and closely packed Fe(3)O(4) nanoparticles. VSM and TGA showed that the Fe(3)O(4)/PMMA composite nanospheres with at least 65% high magnetite content were superparamagnetic, and the saturation magnetization was as high as around 39 emu g(-1) (total mass), which was only decreased by 17% compared with the initial bare Fe(3)O(4) nanoparticles.

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