A facile one-pot hydrothermal procedure for the synthesis of magnetic greigite was investigated in this work, by using FeSO4, thioacetamide, and a tiny amount of hexamethylenetetramine （HMTA） as starting materials. ...A facile one-pot hydrothermal procedure for the synthesis of magnetic greigite was investigated in this work, by using FeSO4, thioacetamide, and a tiny amount of hexamethylenetetramine （HMTA） as starting materials. The HMTA molecule, which acted as a chelating agent and an oxidant, could not only tune the valence fluctuation of iron ions, but also direct the hydrothermal reaction towards the exclusive for- mation of greigite platelets with hundreds of nanometers in lateral size. In the presence of a static magnetic field during this synthesis, the greigite nano-platelets were apt to congregate to form 3D flower-like microspheres. A set of experiments suggested that the ferrous ions were at first partly oxidized by HMTA to form ferric intermediates, i.e., Fe（OH）3 and Fe2O3. Then excessive ferrous ions, along with the solid in- termediates, reacted with sulfide ions, and finally evolved into greigite, Taken into consideration that a similar process occurred in magnetotactic bacteria, our results may give a hint at the design of biomimetic synthesis strategies to produce nanomaterials, especially the magnetosome-like greigite.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 40902014 and 51472064)the Natural Scientific Research Innovation Foundation in Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT.NSRIF 2013055)
文摘A facile one-pot hydrothermal procedure for the synthesis of magnetic greigite was investigated in this work, by using FeSO4, thioacetamide, and a tiny amount of hexamethylenetetramine （HMTA） as starting materials. The HMTA molecule, which acted as a chelating agent and an oxidant, could not only tune the valence fluctuation of iron ions, but also direct the hydrothermal reaction towards the exclusive for- mation of greigite platelets with hundreds of nanometers in lateral size. In the presence of a static magnetic field during this synthesis, the greigite nano-platelets were apt to congregate to form 3D flower-like microspheres. A set of experiments suggested that the ferrous ions were at first partly oxidized by HMTA to form ferric intermediates, i.e., Fe（OH）3 and Fe2O3. Then excessive ferrous ions, along with the solid in- termediates, reacted with sulfide ions, and finally evolved into greigite, Taken into consideration that a similar process occurred in magnetotactic bacteria, our results may give a hint at the design of biomimetic synthesis strategies to produce nanomaterials, especially the magnetosome-like greigite.
