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Abstract

We report an improved method for the controlled solvent-phase decomposition of ferrocene into highly crystalline monodisperse iron oxide nanoparticles at relatively low temperatures. Solution-phase decomposition of ferrocene into nanoparticles has received little attention in the literature, due to the percieved stability of ferrocene. However, we synthesised wüstite FeO-iron oxide coreshell nanoparticles by thermally decomposing ferrocene in 1-octadecene solvent and in the presence of oleic acid and oleylamine, as surfactants. We report procedures that provide cubic and spherical coreshell iron oxide nanoparticles whose size (29.3 ± 2.3 nm for spheres, 38.6 ± 6.9 nm for distorted cubes and 23.5 ± 2.4 nm for distorted cubes with concave faces) and shape can be controlled through simple adjustments to reaction parameters. Transmission electron microscopy, scanning transmission electron microscopy, energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy, electron energy-loss spectroscopy and powder X-ray diffraction analysis methods were used to characterise the nanoparticles.

Item Type:	Article
Authors/Creators:	Loedolff, MJ and Fuller, RO and Nealon, GL and Saunders, M and Spackman, MA and Koutsantonis, GA
Keywords:	nanoparticles, ferrocene, iron oxides
Journal or Publication Title:	Dalton Transactions
Publisher:	Royal Society of Chemistry
ISSN:	1477-9226
DOI / ID Number:	https://doi.org/10.1039/D1DT03222D
Copyright Information:	© The Royal Society of Chemistry 2022
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