[Isaac]

This paper (https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S0020168510100146) claims to have a protocol for forming monodisperse iron oxide nanoparticles from iron(II) chloride after just one minute of microwaving a high pH solution. Has anyone tried this? Would be awesome if NP synthesis only took like 10 minutes with prep time and only required like a glass bottle in a microwave.

[admin]

Uh, science + microwave -> i am intrigued. Thanks for bringing this up. Ill tell the our bead specialists to throw an eye on it.
Cheers

Tim

[Tomek]

Dear Isaac,

Thanks for pointing out the publication. Indeed it might be a neat way to make the core particles (I might give it a try soon). What I noticed in the publication is that the MNPs are relatively large (~50-100 nm) which is bigger than what we get with the coprecipitation protocol. In principle, the co-precipitation is also quite quick (synthesis takes ~15 minutes in large scale), the part that takes the longest is washing. Nevertheless, it sounds like a simple way to make the core particles possibly even easier than with the coprep method.

Cheers,

T.

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