Synthesis and Characterization of Magnetic Mesoporous Ɣ-FE2O3/SIO2
Magneticmesoporousɣ-Fe2O3/SiO2 synthesized using an evaporation-induced self-assembly (EISA) approach. The non-ionictriblock copolymer P123 was used as surfactant template with various amounts of iron oxide (1.8g-2.4g) and varied during the synthesis. Characterizations of the surface area and magnetic properties for prepared materials were done using N2-sorption analyses, and a superconducting quantum interference device interfaced with a vibrating sample magnetometer (SQUID-VSM) respectively. From this study, N2-sorption analysis indicated that most of the ɣ-Fe2O3domains of several nanometres were embedded in the silica matrix. In addition, the obtained magneticmesoporouscomposite which contains 2.3g amount ofiron oxide has revealedhigher magnetism saturation value of (4.564 emu/g) compared to other prepared samples which been evaluated by VSM analysis.