Controllable synthesis and characterization of amino-functionalized magnetic nanogels via photopolymerization

  • Yanbao Gong*
  • , Chengyun Wang
  • , Shunying Liu
  • , Shufang Luo
  • , Jin Huang
  • , Jiahui Yu
  • , Shiyuan Liu
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Core-shell Fe3O4 nanogels with controllable sizes were synthesized under UV irradiation using Fe3O4 nanoparticles as core, N-(2-Aminoethyl) methacrylamide (AEM) as monomer and MBA as cross-linker. The effects of AEM and MBA concentrations and irradiation time on particle sizes of Fe3O4 nanogels were investigated. The particle size, size distribution, morphology, structure and magnetism of the nanogels were characterized by dynamic light scattering, transmission electron microscopy, FTIR, thermogravimmetric analysis, and vibrating sample magnetometer. The results showed that superparamagnetic nanogels with different sizes and narrow size distributions could be synthesized by controlling the irradiation time and concentrations of monomer and cross-linker. Comparing with Fe3O4 nanoparticles, the stability of magnetic nanogels was improved due to their high zeta potential, although their saturation magnetization showed a little tendency to decrease.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)751-755
Number of pages5
JournalHe Jishu/Nuclear Techniques
Volume31
Issue number10
StatePublished - Oct 2008

Keywords

  • Amino-functionalized
  • Core-shell nanogels
  • In situ controllable synthesis
  • Photopolymerization
  • Superparamagnetic

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