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. 2019 Feb 18;9(2):287. doi: 10.3390/nano9020287

Table 5.

Thermogravimetric data and calculation of the number of molecules on SPIONs’ surface.

Samples Weight Loss (%) Degraded Molecule during Heating Compounds on SPIONs Surface
Chemical Formula Molecular Weight (g·mol−1) molecule·nm² µmol·g−1 SPIONs
Bare SPIONs 3.5 H2O 18 10.3 (OH) 1944 (OH)
SPIONs-CPTES 2.6 -(CH2)3-Cl 78 1.8 (CPTES) 340 (CPTES)
SPIONs-CPTES-HAPtS 3.6 -(CH2)3-NH-C17H17O2 310 0.6 (HAPtS) 116 (HAPtS)