Abstract
PEGylated Fe3O4 nanoparticles were prepared through flow synthesis upon the pyrolysis of ferric acetylacetonate (Fe(acac)(3)) in anisole at 250 degrees C under pressure of 33 bar, in the presence of a,?-dicarboxyl-terminated polyethylene glycol (HOOC-PEG-COOH) and oleylamine. In combination with theoretical analysis, the effects of linear velocity, residence time, and reactor dimension on particle size distribution were systematically investigated. In addition, the impact of Ostwald ripening on particle size distribution was also revealed. In particular, the impacts of monomer concentration distributions along both axial and radial directions of the tube reactor on the particle size distribution were carefully investigated. Under optimized conditions, PEGylated Fe3O4 nanoparticles with the relative standard deviation of particle size down to 10.6% were thus obtained. The resulting 4.6 nm particles exhibited excellent colloidal stability and high longitudinal relaxivity (r(1)) up to 11.1 mM(-1) center dot s(-1), which manifested the reliability of flow synthesis in preparing PEGylated Fe3O4 nanoparticles as contrast agents for magnetic resonance imaging applications.
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