Improved functionalization of oleic acid-coated iron oxide
Aug 07 2012 · Sun et al. made high-quality magnetite nanocrystals with small size distribution by thermal decomposition of iron(III) acetylacetonate in phenyl ether. A similar method reported by Park et al. uses iron-oleate as a precursor and oleic acid as a capping agent. This results in nanoparticles with a hydrophobic coating since the polar end groups