Microfluidic Synthesis of Iron Oxide and Oxyhydroxide Nanoparticles

Microfluidic Devices in Nanotechnology: Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 323-360

  Abou Hassan, Ali ^a   Sandre, Olivier ^a   Cabuil, Valérie ^a  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

(superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles, SPIONs) applications in field of imagery and therapy; Iron oxide and oxyhydroxide nanoparticle microfluidic synthesis; PH, important parameter controlling hydrolysis, polycondensation and iron oxide precipitation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886159588     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470622551.ch9     Document Type: Chapter

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