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Importance Of The Inter-Electrode Distance For The Electrochemical Synthesis Of Magnetite Nanoparticles: Synthesis, Characterization, Computational Modelling, And Cytotoxicity, Seyedeh Maryamdokht Taimoory, John F. Trant, Abbas Rahdar, Mousa Aliahmad, Fardin Sadeghfar, Mahmoud Hashemzaei

Chemistry and Biochemistry Publications

Magnetite (Fe3O4) nanoparticles, are promising inorganic nanomaterials for future biomedical applications due to their low toxicity and unique magnetic properties. However, the synthesis of these particles can often be expensive, energy intensive, and non-scalable, requiring the addition of surfactants to stabilize the material to control the particle size and avoid agglomeration. We wish to report a simple, green, surfactant-free electrochemical synthesis of these materials using a closed aqueous system at ambient temperature. Particle diameter, between 19 and 33 nm, was controlled by simply modifying the distance between the electrodes. These magnetite nanoparticles were then fully characterized using both spectroscopy and …