Structure Analysis of Fe3O4@SiO2 Core Shells Prepared from Amorphous and Crystalline SiO2 Particles

• Published in: IOP conference series. Materials Science and Engineering Vol. 367; no. 1
• Main Authors: Munasir, Dewanto, A. S., Kusumawati, D. H., Putri, N. P., Yulianingsih, A., Sa'adah, I. K. F., Taufiq, A., Hidayat, N., Sunaryono, S., Supardi, Z. A. I.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Bristol IOP Publishing 01.05.2018
• Subjects: @SiO; Coprecipitation; Core-shell; Crystal structure; crystalline and amorphous structures; Crystallinity; Data analysis; Functional groups; Iron oxides; iron sand; Morphology; nanoparticle; Nanoparticles; Natural resources; Polyethylene glycol; Sand; silica sand; Silicon dioxide; Structural analysis; Synthesis; Tridymite; X-ray diffraction
• ISSN: 1757-8981; 1757-899X
• DOI: 10.1088/1757-899X/367/1/012010

This article reports the results synthesis of crystalline (Fe3O4@c-SiO2) and amorphous (Fe3O4@a-SiO2) nanoparticles from natural resources (iron sand and silica sand). The synthesis of Fe3O4 and SiO2 nanoparticles used co-precipitation and hydrothermal-coprecipitation methods with polyethylene glycol (PEG) 4000 as a template. The XRD data analysis presented that the amorphous SiO2 particles were successfully produced using hydrothermal and co-precipitation methods. The XRD data analysis also presented that the crystalline phases were formed in quartz and tridymite phases after calcination process of the amorphous phase. SEM images exhibited that the amorphous phase had different particle size and morphology from the crystalline phase. FTIR spectra presented some absorption peaks of new functional groups indicating the existence of Si-O-Si (silanol), Fe-O, C-N, and Fe-O-Si as new functional groups.