Magnetic studies of iron oxide nanoparticles coated with oleic acid and Pluronic® block copolymer

Authors

• Marco Morales Torres, University of Nebraska - LincolnFollow
• Tapan Kumar Jain, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska 68198
• V. Labhasetwar, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska 68198 and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska 68198
• Diandra Leslie-Pelecky, University of Nebraska -- LincolnFollow

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

May 2005

Comments

Published by American Institute of Physics. J. Applied Physics 97, 10Q905 (2005). ©2005 American Institute of Physics. Permission to use. http://jap.aip.org/jap/.

Abstract

We have prepared and studied iron-oxide nanoparticles coated with oleic acid (OA) and Pluronic® polymer. The mean diameter of the iron-oxide nanoparticles was 9.3(±)0.8 nm. Saturation magnetization values measured at 10 K varied from 66.1(±0.7) emu/g to 98.7(±0.5) emu/g. At 300 K the loops showed negligible coercive field. The peaks in zero-field-cooled susceptibility decreased from 280 to 168 K with increasing OA concentration up to 10.6 wt %, and remained nearly constant for higher concentrations. This suggests that incomplete coverage of the OA allows small, interacting agglomerates to form.