259: Microwave assisted generation of siloxy stabilized magnetic nanoparticles

Abstract: The capability of synthesizing and of customizing these metal nanoparticles to contain different functional groups can lead to new compounds for the attachment of drugs, antibodies, and ligands which can serve the purpose as a drug or antibody carrier, and can also lead to uses in many other fields of applications such as catalysis [2]. The use of metal nanoparticles in catalysis has been explored greatly because of their have high catalytic activity and selectivity for certain reactions [3]. In this work, we have synthesized magnetic metal nanoparticles via the reduction of the transition metal salts in the via microwave irritation using 1,3,5,7-tetramethylcyclotetrasiloxane (D4H) as both a reducing and stabilizing agent to generate magnetic metal core nanoparticles. What is intriguing about this process is this reaction does not progress under atmospheric pressure and temperature for the respective solvent. These generated materials were characterized via TEM, SEM/EDS, FT-IR, and Raman spectroscopy.