A Milestone in the Chemical Synthesis of Fe₃O₄ Nanoparticles: Unreported Bulklike Properties Lead to a Remarkable Magnetic Hyperthermia.

ABSTRACT: Among iron oxide phases, magnetite (Fe₃O₄) is often the preferred one for nanotechnological and biomedical applications because of its high saturation magnetization and low toxicity. Although there are several synthetic routes that attempt to reach magnetite nanoparticles (NPs), they are usually referred as "IONPs" (iron oxide NPs) due to the great difficulty in obtaining the monophasic and stoichiometric Fe₃O₄ phase. Added to this problem is the common increase of size/shape polydispersity when larger NPs (D > 20 nm) are synthesized. An unequivocal correlation between a nanomaterial and its properties can only be achieved by the production of highly homogeneous systems, which, in turn, is only possible by the continuous improvement of syn

SUBMITTER: Castellanos-Rubio I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8619619 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature