Open AccessOne Pot and Sonically Assisted Synthesis of Fe3O4 and SiO2@Fe3O4
Author(s) -
OA Saputra,
Windy Ayu Lestari,
Fajar Rakhman Wibowo
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
iop conference series. materials science and engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1757-899X
pISSN - 1757-8981
DOI - 10.1088/1757-899x/578/1/012032
Subject(s) - tetraethyl orthosilicate , fourier transform infrared spectroscopy , materials science , transmission electron microscopy , magnetite , analytical chemistry (journal) , nanoparticle , adsorption , shell (structure) , sonication , scanning electron microscope , desorption , nuclear chemistry , mineralogy , chemical engineering , nanotechnology , chemistry , composite material , chromatography , metallurgy , engineering
Magnetite (Fe 3 O 4 ) and core-shell SiO 2 @Fe 3 O 4 nanoparticles were successfully synthesized through a one pot assisted by sonication method. The products were morphologically, physically and chemically characterized using Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM), N2 adsorption-desorption, and Fourier Transform Infra-red (FTIR). In this research, concentration of tetraethyl orthosilicate (TEOS), a precursor of SiO 2 , was varied by 1, 3 and 5 mmol in order to control the SiO 2 shell thickness. The FTIR measurements showed that the increasing of TEOS concentration was parallel with the increasing of Si-O stretching vibration peak intensity revealing an enlargement of SiO 2 shell thickness. It was proved by morphological study where the addition of 1 mmol of TEOS has approximately 2 nm of shell thickness while by using 5 mmol was ∼10 nm of shell thickness. Magnetite nanoparticle has 80.43 m 2 g -1 of BET surface area but dramatically decreased to 55.74 m 2 g -1 after incorporating of SiO 2 (TEOS 5 mmol) caused by the presence of CTAB in pore channel.