title: A general route to synthesize water-dispersive noble metal-iron oxide bifunctional hybrid nanoparticles.
abstract: This communication describes a simple, general route for preparing bifunctional hybrid nanoparticles based on direct adsorption and spontaneous reduction of Ag(+) and Pd(2+) onto the surface of carbon-encapsulated superparamagnetic colloidal nanoclusters. Because of the existence of carbon coating and surface hydrophilic carboxyl, the bifunctional hybrid nanoparticles show excellent water-dispersity. In addition, the size (35 nm-86 nm) and number of Ag nanocrystals can be tuned by changing the molar ratios and reaction concentration between Ag(+) and nanoclusters.
authors.affiliation: Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale and Department of Materials Science & Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230026, China.
authors.forename: Hui
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Yubing
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.forename: Yifei
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.forename: Jian
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Ran
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Kai
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Cheng
authors.forename: Qianwang
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Chen