surfactant-assisted microwave route to fabricate cofe2o4 nanoparticles

glycerol mono-oleate (gmo) was produced by direct esterification reaction with amberlyst 16 resin catalysts with the efficiency of 86% and was used as a surfactant for synthesis of cofe2o4 nano-particles by surfactant-assisted microwave method. fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (ft-ir), x-ray diffraction (xrd) and scanning electron microscopy (sem) were used to consider the structural and morphological properties of cofe2o4 nano-particles. results demonstrated that the average particle size and the percentage of crystallinity were 37.90 nm and 47.34%, respectively.