SIMULTANEOUS MICROFLUIDIC SYNTHESIS AND SILANIZATION OF IRON OXIDE NANOPARTICLES

Iron oxide nanoparticles (Fe3O4 NPs) have garnered significant attention in recent years due to their favorable physicochemical and biological characteristics, which make them highly versatile for various applications. As a result, there is an increasing focus on optimizing synthesis approaches to ensure they are both more efficient and reproducible. Thus, this study proposes utilizing emerging microfluidic technologies to fabricate uniform core (Fe3O4)-shell (3-aminopropyltriethoxysilane- APTES) NPs with tunable characteristics, accomplishing the material's simultaneous on-chip synthesis and silanization within a 3D microfluidic platform. The synthesized nanomaterials were analyzed using several techniques, including XRD, FT-IR, DLS, TEM, and TG-DSC techniques.