Egg albumin as a nanoreactor for growing single-crystalline Fe3O4nanotubes with high yields

Baoyou Geng; Fangming Zhan; Han Jiang; Yijun Guo; Zhoujing Xing

doi:10.1039/B813071J

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Egg albumin as a nanoreactor for growing single-crystalline Fe₃O₄nanotubes with high yields†

Baoyou Geng,*^a Fangming Zhan,^a Han Jiang,^a Yijun Guo^a and Zhoujing Xing^a

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^a College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Anhui Key Laboratory of Functional Molecular Solids, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu, P. R. China
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Abstract

Single-crystalline Fe₃O₄nanotubes have been synthesized successfully by using egg albumin as a nanoreactor; these three-dimensional material nanotubes are formed through a rolling mechanism under mild biological conditions.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/B813071J
Article type: Communication
Submitted: 29 Jul 2008
Accepted: 03 Sep 2008
First published: 01 Oct 2008

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Chem. Commun., 2008, 5773-5775

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Egg albumin as a nanoreactor for growing single-crystalline Fe₃O₄nanotubes with high yields

B. Geng, F. Zhan, H. Jiang, Y. Guo and Z. Xing, Chem. Commun., 2008, 5773 DOI: 10.1039/B813071J

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