Iron–nickel spinel oxide NiFe2O4 nanoparticles have been prepared by the combination of chemical precipitation and subsequent mechanical milling. For comparison, their analogue obtained by thermal synthesis is also studied. Phase composition and structural properties of iron–nickel oxides are investigated by X-ray diffraction and Mössbauer spectroscopy. Their catalytic behavior in methanol deco...

Magnetic nanoparticles attracted a great deal of attention in the medical applications due to their unique properties. The most exceptional property of magnetic particles is their response to a magnetic force, and this property has been utilized in applications such as drug targeting, bioseparation, contrast agents in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and heating mediators for cancer therapy. In...

The grant number of the National Natural Science Foundation of China should be ‘‘10774061,’’ not ‘‘50602020’’ as appeared in the published paper. Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited.

The variations in the structural magnetic properties of cobalt ferrite due to Ti4+/Co2+ co-substitution for 2Fe3+ are presented. The non-linear relation in the variation of the lattice parameter agrees with a previous study on cation distribution, which showed that the rate of substitution of cations into the A-sites and B-sites varies with Ti-concentration. Such variation in the rate of substi...

This communication presents a new peroxidase mimic of CoFe(2)O(4) nanoparticles evaluated by the luminol-based chemiluminescent (CL) reaction. This offers a new method for evaluation and screening of the nanoparticles-based enzyme mimetics.

A general and simple approach for large-scale synthesis of porous hollow spinel AFe2O4 nanoarchitectures via metal organic framework self-sacrificial template strategy is proposed. By employing this method, we can successfully synthesize uniform NiFe2O4, ZnFe2O4, and CoFe2O4 hollow architectures that are hierarchically assembled by nanoparticles. When these hollow microcubes were tested as anod...

Magnetic nanoparticles of cobalt-zinc ferrite (Co0.5Zn0.5Fe2O4) have been synthesized in a homogeneous aqueous solution at room temperature by co-precipitation method without any template and subsequent heat treatment. Synthesis of material is confirmed using XRD from the report of single phase polycrystalline ferrite material and also determined lattice constant. Atomic absorption spectrophoto...

Current study represents the effect of the size and synthesis method on the cation distribution of cobalt ferrite nanoparticles and on the magnetic properties. The nanoferrites have been synthesized through sol-gel auto-combustion method using metal nitrates as precursor and citrate as fuel. In order to obtain the fine and agglomerated-free particles, we have used salt-assisted combustion react...

Nanoparticles of nickel substituted cobalt ferrite (Nix Co1-xFe2 O4 : 0£ X£ 1) have been synthesized by co-precipitation method. Triton x-100 and oleic acid as surfactants were used. Particles size as estimated by the full width half maximum (FWHM) of the strongest X-ray diffraction (XRD) peak were found 17 and 21nm. Their morphology structure have been determined by scanning electron microscop...