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ArticleNanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland)2017

Synthesis of Distinct Iron Oxide Nanomaterial Shapes Using Lyotropic Liquid Crystal Solvents.

Seyyed Muhammad Salili, Matthew Worden, Ahlam Nemati, Donald W Miller, Torsten Hegmann

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Article in Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland), 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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5 authors.

Seyyed Muhammad SaliliChemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program, Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242-0001, USA. ssalili@kent.edu.
Matthew WordenDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242-0001, USA. mworden@austin.utexas.edu.
Ahlam NematiChemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program, Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242-0001, USA. anemati@kent.edu.
Donald W MillerDepartment of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB R3E 0T6, Canada. Donald.Miller@umanitoba.ca.
Torsten HegmannChemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program, Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242-0001, USA. thegmann@kent.edu.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A room temperature reduction-hydrolysis of Fe(III) precursors such as FeCl₃ or Fe(acac)₃ in various lyotropic liquid crystal phases (lamellar, hexagonal columnar, or micellar) formed by a range of ionic or neutral surfactants in H₂O is shown to be an effective and mild approach for the preparation of iron oxide (IO) nanomaterials with several morphologies (shapes and dimensions), such as extended thin nanosheets with lateral dimensions of several hundred nanometers as well as smaller nanoflakes and nanodiscs in the tens of nanometers size regime. We will discuss the role of the used surfactants and lyotropic liquid crystal phases as well as the shape and size differences depending upon when and how the resulting nanomaterials were isolated from the reaction mixture. The presented synthetic methodology using lyotropic liquid crystal solvents should be widely applicable to several other transition metal oxides for which the described reduction-hydrolysis reaction sequence is a suitable pathway to obtain nanoscale particles.

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iron oxide nanoparticleslyotropic liquid crystalsmagnetic nanoparticlesnanodiscsnanoflakesnanosheetstemplate syntheses

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PMID28767058
PMCPMC5575693

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