Polishchuk D, Nedelko N, Solopan S, Ślawska-Waniewska A, Zamorskyi V, Tovstolytkin A, Belous A. Profound Interfacial Effects in CoFe
2O
4/Fe
3O
4 and Fe
3O
4/CoFe
2O
4 Core/Shell Nanoparticles.
Nanoscale Res Lett 2018;
13:67. [PMID:
29492755 PMCID:
PMC5834948 DOI:
10.1186/s11671-018-2481-x]
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Abstract
Two sets of core/shell magnetic nanoparticles, CoFe2O4/Fe3O4 and Fe3O4/CoFe2O4, with a fixed diameter of the core (~ 4.1 and ~ 6.3 nm for the former and latter sets, respectively) and thickness of shells up to 2.5 nm were synthesized from metal chlorides in a diethylene glycol solution. The nanoparticles were characterized by X-ray diffraction, transmission electron microscopy, and magnetic measurements. The analysis of the results of magnetic measurements shows that coating of magnetic nanoparticles with the shells results in two simultaneous effects: first, it modifies the parameters of the core-shell interface, and second, it makes the particles acquire combined features of the core and the shell. The first effect becomes especially prominent when the parameters of core and shell strongly differ from each other. The results obtained are useful for optimizing and tailoring the parameters of core/shell spinel ferrite magnetic nanoparticles for their use in various technological and biomedical applications.
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