Small-Angle X-Ray Scattering Study on PVA/Fe3O4 Magnetic Hydrogels
Small-Angle X-Ray Scattering Study on PVA/Fe3O4 Magnetic Hydrogels
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DOI:
10.1142/s1793292016500272
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发表时间:
2016-03-01
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影响因子:
1.2
通讯作者:
Darminto
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作者:
Sunaryono;Taufiq, Ahmad;Darminto
A synchrotron small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) study on PVA/Fe3O4 magnetic hydrogels has been performed to investigate the effect of clustering on their magnetic properties. The hydrogels were prepared through freezing-thawing (F-T) processes. The structure, morphology and magnetic properties of magnetite (Fe3O4) nanoparticles (NPs) were investigated using X-ray diffractometry (XRD), transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and a superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) magnetometer, respectively. In this study, SAXS data were used to reveal the structural dimensions of the magnetite and its distribution in the polymer-rich PVA and magnetic hydrogels. As calculated using the Beaucage and Teubner-Strey models, the average of the structural dimensions of the PVA hydrogels was 3.9 nm (crystallites), while the average distance between crystallites was approximately 18 nm. Further analysis by applying a two-lognormal distribution showed that the magnetite NPs comprised secondary particles with a diameter of 9.6 nm that were structured by primary particles (similar to 3.2 nm). A two-lognormal distribution function has also been used in describing the size distributions of magnetite NPs in magnetic hydrogels. The clusters of magnetite NPs in the magnetic hydrogels are significantly reduced from 30.4 nm to 12.8 nm with decreasing concentration of the NPs magnetite from 15 wt.% to 1 wt.%. The saturation magnetization values of the magnetite NPs, the 15% and 1% magnetic hydrogels were 34.67 emu/g, 6.52 emu/g and 0.37 emu/g, respectively.