Instrument: Wallis
Industry: Nanomedicine
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules25030653
Keywords: magnetic silica hybrids; maghemite; morpho-textural characterization; toxicology; sol-gel technique
A facile sol-gel route has been applied to synthesize hybrid silica-PVA-iron oxide nanocomposite materials. A step-by-step calcination (processing temperatures up to 400 °C) was applied in order to oxidize the organics together with the iron precursor. Transmission electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction, small angle neutron scattering, and nitrogen porosimetry were used to determine the temperature-induced morpho-textural modifications. (385)