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Multifunctional Hybrid Fe2O3-Au Nanoparticles for Efficient Plasmonic Heating
Published on: February 20, 2016
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Fe3O4 nanoparticles as robust photothermal agents for driving high barrier reactions under ambient conditions
Robert J G Johnson1, Kaitlin M Haas, Benjamin J Lear
1Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA. bul14@psu.edu.
Abstract:
Magnetite nanoparticles (MNPs) show remarkable stability during extreme photothermal heating (≥770 K), displaying no change in size, crystallinity, or surfactants. The heat produced is also shown as chemically useful, driving the high-barrier thermal decomposition of polypropylene carbonate. This suggests MNPs are better photothermal agents (compared to gold nanoparticles), for photothermally driving high-barrier chemical transformations.

