In this work, a novel label-free electrochemical immunosensor was developed for the quantitative detection of alpha fetoprotein (AFP). Multifunctionalized graphene nanocomposites (TB-Au-Fe3O4-rGO) were applied to modify the electrode to achieve the amplification of electrochemical signal. TB-Au-Fe3O4-rGO includes the advantages of graphene, ferroferric oxide nanoparticles (Fe3O4 NPs), gold nano...

Engineering a safe and high-efficiency delivery system for efficient RNA interference is critical for successful gene therapy. In this study, we designed a novel nanocarrier system of polyethyleneimine (PEI)-modified Fe3O4@SiO2, which allows high efficient loading of VEGF small hairpin (sh)RNA to form Fe3O4@SiO2/PEI/VEGF shRNA nanocomposites for VEGF gene silencing as well as magnetic resonance...

We report on the electronic and magnetic characterization of the hybrid interface constituted of C60 molecules and an epitaxial Fe3O4(001) surface grown on GaAs(001). Using X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) and X-ray magnetic circular dichroism (XMCD), we demonstrate that a stable C60 sub-monolayer (ML) can be retained on the Fe3O4(001) surface upon in situ annealing at 250 C. A carbon K-edge...

An ethylene-glycol (EG) mediated self-assembly process was firstly developed to synthesize micrometer-sized nanostructured Mg-doped Fe3O4 composite oxides to decompose hexachlorobenzene (HCB) at 300°C. The synthesized samples were characterized by scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction, energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy and inductively coupled plasm...

Using a developed co-precipitation method, we synthesized spherical Fe3O4 nanoparticles with a wide nonlinear absorption band of visible radiation. Optical properties of the synthesized nanoparticles dispersed in an optically transparent copolymer of methyl methacrylate with styrene were studied by optical spectroscopy and z-scan techniques. We found that the electric polarizability of Fe3O4 na...

A carbon-encapsulated Fe3O4 nanocomposite was prepared by a simple one-step pyrolysis of iron pentacarbonyl without using any templates, solvents or surfactants. The structure and morphology of the nanocomposite was investigated by X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy, Brunauer-Emmett-Teller analysis and Raman spectroscopy. Fe3O4 nanoparticles are di...

Magnetic nanoparticles have attracted much research interest in the past decades due to their potential applications in microwave devices. Here, we adopted a novel technique to tune cut-off frequency exceeding the natural resonance frequency limit of monodisperse Fe3O4 nanoparticles via superparamagnetic relaxation. We observed that the cut-off frequency can be enhanced from 5.3 GHz for Fe3O4 t...

The nano-Fe3O4 particles were prepared by hydrothermal method. Cellulose-based magnetic Fe3O4 was prepared by adding cellulose solution dissolved in sodium hydroxide / thiourea / urea system. The basic protease was used as the catalyst and glutaraldehyde was used as the crosslinking agent, The production of magnetic recyclable immobilized enzyme can greatly reduce the cost of hydrolysis of slud...

Nearly monodispersed yolk-type Au@Fe3O4@C nanospheres with hollow cores of 50 nm in diameter were prepared through coating Au@SiO2 nanoparticles with Fe3O4@C double layers, followed by dissolving SiO2. The cytotoxicity of the nanospheres was evaluated by MTT assay, demonstrating a high biocompatibility. The yolk-type nanospheres show a high DOX loading content of 1237 mg g(-1). The coexistence ...

Gold (Au)-decorated iron oxide (Fe3O4), Au/Fe3O4, Janus nanoparticles were fabricated via the continuous route for aerosol Au incorporation with Fe3O4 domains synthesized in an aqueous medium as multifunctional nanoplatforms. The fabricated nanoparticles were subsequently exposed to 185-nm UV light to generate positive charges on Au surfaces, and their activities were tested in computed tomogra...