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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jun 15.
Published in final edited form as: Mater Chem Phys. 2015 Jun 15;160:177–186. doi: 10.1016/j.matchemphys.2015.04.022

Table 1.

Size analysis via dynamic light scattering of iron oxide nanoparticles synthesized by the various methods represented by average ± standard deviation (three independent batches and three samples from each batch).

Method Nanoparticle Size (nm) PDI
two-step Fe3O4+Dx 382.4 ± 163.2 0.35 ± 0.14
Fe3O4+Dx-ECH 237.8 ± 28.8 0.16 ± 0.02
semi-two-step Fe3O4+Dx 233.9 ± 25.2 0.19 ± 0.03
Fe3O4+Dx-ECH 244.1 ± 54.7 0.20 ± 0.08
simultaneous semi-two-step Fe3O4+Dx 179.2 ± 18.3 0.18 ± 0.02
Fe3O4+Dx-ECH 185.6 ± 23.8 0.02 ± 0.03
one-step (5 grams Dx) Fe3O4+Dx 171.4 ± 30.9 0.22 ± 0.09
Fe3O4+Dx-ECH 121.7 ± 24.7 0.14 ± 0.02
one-step (1 gram Dx) Fe3O4+Dx 248.0 ± 69.0 0.20 ± 0.05
Fe3O4+Dx-ECH 244.2 ± 34.4 0.16 ± 0.05