Journal of Inorganic Materials

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Preparation and Characterization of Rod-like γ-Fe2O3 Nanoparticles

JIANG Guo-Hua, JIANG Ji-Sen   

  1. Department of Physics, Center for Functional Nanomaterials and Devices, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062,China
  • Received:2004-08-11 Revised:2004-09-29 Published:2005-09-20 Online:2005-09-20

Abstract: This paper presented a new method to prepare γ-Fe2O3 nanoparticles. After the reaction of FeCl3 with NaOH in the presence of polyethylene glycol(PEG-400), the precipitate was dried at
60℃ in air and then calcined at different temperatures for 1h. XRD, Mossbauer spectroscope, TEM, FTIR and TG-DTA were used to characterize the obtained samples. The results
show that after the precipitate dried at 60℃ for 6h, a poor-crystalline γ-Fe2O3 powder forms, and calcined at 300℃ for 1h, the poor-crystalline powder turns to rod-like
γ-Fe2O3 nanoparticles with aspect ratio about 5.

Key words: γ-Fe2O3, PEG-400, nanoparticles

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