A myriad of core/shell nanoparticles (NPs) have been developed and studied in the last decades aiming at the increase of functionality, stability, dispersibility, biocompatibility, and specific targeting, for instance.1 Shells can also interact synergetically with the core by changing lattice parameters, resulting in strain-engineered materials with tuned, improved, and new properties.2,3 This ...

We report on the observation of an anisotropic magnetic dipolar interaction that results from binding PbSe nanoparticles (NPs) to GaAs surfaces by an organic linker. The observed dependence of the blocking temperature on the alignment of the linking molecule relative to the surface normal indicates that the anisotropy is caused by the attachment of the organic linker to the NPs. The presented r...

A molecular detection method utilizing the magnetically induced aggregation of silver nanoparticle (NP)-embedded silica NPs for SERS activation is described. Here, silver embedded magnetic NPs (Ag-M-dots) composed of a magnetic core and silica shells, on whose surface silver NPs were formed, were used. Because the magnetic field induced aggregated Ag-M-dots exhibit a strong SERS signal compared...

Magnetic spindle-like Fe3O4 mesoporous nanoparticles with a length of 200 nm and diameter of 60 nm were successfully synthesized by reducing the spindle-like α-Fe2O3 NPs which were prepared by forced hydrolysis method. The obtained samples were characterized by transmission electron microscopy, powder X-ray diffraction, attenuated total reflection fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, field ...

Among many kinds of magnetic materials, L10-phase FePt shows almost the highest magnetic anisotropy resulting in high coercivity [1]. Thus, FePt has been intensively studied as material for magnetic recording media with a storage capacity of Tbit/in [2]. After the IBM group reported the synthesis of FePt nanoparticles (NPs) in liquid phase using iron pentacarbonyl [Fe(CO)5] and platinum(II) ace...

Traditional hot-injection (HI) syntheses of colloidal nanoparticles (NPs) allows good separation of the nucleation and growth stages of the reaction, a key limitation in obtaining monodisperse NPs, but with limited scalability. Here, two methods are presented for obtaining NPs via rapid heating: magnetic and microwave-assisted. Both of these techniques provide improved engineering control over ...

We report a facile halide ion (Cl(-) or Br(-)) mediated synthesis of Fe nanoparticles (NPs) by thermal decomposition of Fe(CO)5. The NP structure is controlled to be either amorphous (in the absence of halide ions) or single crystalline bcc (in the presence of halide ions). Through systematic investigation on the synthetic conditions, we have confirmed that the formation of bcc-Fe NPs is facili...

We report in vitro and in vivo magnetic resonance (MR) imaging of C6 glioma cells with a novel acetylated 3-aminopropyltrimethoxysilane (APTS)-coated iron oxide nanoparticles (Fe3O4 NPs). In the present study, APTS-coated Fe3O4 NPs were formed via a one-step hydrothermal approach and then chemically modified with acetic anhydride to generate surface charge-neutralized NPs. Prussian blue stainin...

Nanoparticle-based magnetic resonance imaging T2 negative agents are of great interest, and much effort is devoted to increasing cell-loading capability while maintaining low cytotoxicity. Herein, two classes of mixed-ligand protected magnetic-responsive, bimetallic gold/iron nanoparticles (Au/Fe NPs) synthesized by a two-step method are presented. Their structure, surface composition, and magn...

An efficient procedure and green route has been developed by using eco-friendly green synthesized palladium nanoparticles (Pd-NPs) as reusable heterogeneous nanocatalyst (Pd@nanocat) for the synthesis of diaryl ethers from the cross coupling reaction of the aryl halides with the phenol in the presence of dimethylsulfoxide (DMSO) as a solvent at 110 oC under natural ligand condition capped Pd-NP...