title: Fabrication of carbon nano-tubes decorated with ultra fine superparamagnetic nano-particles under continuous flow conditions.
abstract: Ultra fine (2-3 nm) magnetite (Fe(3)O(4)) nano-particles are uniformly deposited on single-walled carbon nano-tubes (SWCNTs) pre-functionalised with carboxylic acid groups using microwave radiation. The deposition process involves chemical precipitation associated with continuous flow spinning disc processing (SDP), as a rapid, environmentally friendly approach which is readily scalable for large scale synthesis. The resulting decorated SWCNTs are superparamagnetic with specific saturated magnetization of 30 emu g(-1).
authors.affiliation: Centre for Strategic Nano-Fabrication, School of Biomedical, Biomolecular and Chemical Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia.
authors.forename: Suk Fun
authors.initials: SF
authors.lastname: Chin
authors.forename: K Swaminathan
authors.initials: KS
authors.lastname: Iyer
authors.forename: Colin L
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: Raston
mesh_terms: D008280:Magnetics; D046529:Microscopy, Electron, Transmission; D037742:Nanotubes, Carbon
chemical_list: D037742:Nanotubes, Carbon