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Review article
2021
:14;
202108
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10.1016/j.arabjc.2021.103301

Synthesis of iron-based magnetic nanocomposites: A review

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a Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Universitas Islam Indonesia, Kampus Terpadu UII, Jl. Kaliurang Km 14, Sleman, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
b Santo Paulus Polytechnic, Surakarta, Jl. Dr. Radjiman No.659R Pajang Laweyan Surakarta, Indonesia
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Abstract

Iron oxide-based magnetic nanocomposites have been interesting materials for a wide range of applications in various fields of environment, energy, industries, and medicals. The formation of iron oxide-based magnetic nanocomposites is varied and tuneable referred to their purposes. This paper presents the reviews of the development of magnetic iron oxide nanocomposites by several synthesis method and materials. The highlight is focused on various method for controlling size, magnetization, and the nanoparticles distribution within solid support such as mesoporous silica, clay, graphene, carbon, and zeolite. The role of synthesis method on the magnetic properties and other characteristics as the function of various parameters such as iron content, synthesis condition such as pH, dispersion method, and the presence of intensification are summarized. Furthermore, future perspective for development is also highlighted.

Keywords

Magnetic
Magnetic nanocomposite
Iron oxide nanoparticles
1

1 Introduction

Iron oxide magnetic nanoparticles and nanocomposites are one of the promising materials in many fields’ application due to its unique properties both chemical and physical. As naturally, the magnetic material can be classified into three major types, that are maghemite (γ-Fe2O3), magnetite (Fe3O4) and hematite (α-Fe2O3). These classifications are useful to describe the disadvantages and advantages of the materials when they were applied in specific applications. For example, magnetite material has been commonly used in medical application for drug delivery because of the highest magnetic saturation properties than the others (almost > 250 times) (Chandra et al., 2010). Therefore, determining the basic type of magnetic material is one of the important factors when the material employed in different type application. In addition, besides magnetite types, hematite magnetic nanomaterials have been widely reported in therapy, cancer treatment, hypothermia treatment, and drug delivery systems. In other hands, the material properties such superparamagnetic, which corelated with thermal energy and the ferromagnetic nanoparticle is one of important character for sensor and biomedical purposes (Cardoso et al., 2017). The magnetic properties of iron oxide material depend on the type of the individual and synthesis pathways of magnetic material as shown in Table 1. The basic idea of magnetic nanocomposite development was that magnetic materials are a multimagnetic domain structure, and as their size is reduced to nanoscale, they have a single magnetic domain structure, and their magnetism turns to paramagnetic (Ladj et al., 2013). The change in particle size into the critical size influences the magnetic spin of the magnetic nanomaterials into the disordered and superparamagnetic (Medeiros et al., 2011; Schleich et al., 2014). The effect of particle size affected to magnetic properties already reported. The magnetic properties (Ms, Mr, and Hc) is directly influence by reducing or increasing the particle size. However, the particle size and magnetic properties have a linear correlation, for example increasing particle size will also increase magnetic intrinsic properties, including Ms, Mr and Hc (Li et al., 2017). These phenomena are useful for tumor thermotherapy. In different mechanism, magnetic nanoparticles can be served as vectors to bind biomolecules and then be separated from the biomolecules at the targeted area under the action of the magnetic field and thus used for targeted therapy or diagnosis. In the environmental applications, the nanocomposites were superior in adsorption, photocatalysis and catalysis, as well as in sensor and biosensor applications. Particularly, the easy in separation due to magnetically recoverable nano catalytic, adsorption and chemical bonding interaction are the potencies for adsorption and catalysis area. The combination of magnetic properties and such specific characters for specific purposes is basic idea for magnetic nanocomposite development (Cao et al., 2013). Moreover, the development of the high stability of iron oxide nanocomposite is still a challenging issue, especially in biomedicine applications. Although iron salts are relatively more stable like Mohr's salts; however, in the liquid phase, the stability becomes decreasing. Therefore, increasing stability with a polymer already reported could increase the stability of iron ions. This technique has been widely developed for the synthesis process because it can produce a relatively more significant 3-fold percentage of iron ions composition (Spiridonov et al., 2018). The magnetic polymer core–shell was developed as a protein adsorbent material due to the material's hydrophobic properties (Elaïssari and Bourrel, 2001). Thermosensitive properties are the main characteristics of polymer-coated materials for biomedical applications. Furthermore, surface modification with polymer cation (polycation) is also widely developed and reported as absorbing and detecting viruses because it can increase the adsorption power of the material through electrostatic mechanisms (Veyret et al., 2005).

Table 1 Comparison properties of nature magnetic materials.
Iron oxide Chemical formula Color Magnetic saturation A m2 kg−1 Grain size (nm) Curie transition
Maghemite γ-Fe2O3 Grey, grown, red 60–80 ± 10 ∼820–980
Magnetite Fe3O4 Black 92–100 ± 6 ∼850
Hematite α-Fe2O3 Grey, grown, red 0.3 – ∼1000

The properties and structure of combining material influence the procedure and route and synthesis method. This review highlights the synthesis of magnetic nanocomposite. Considering that the specific surface area, particle size and magnetic saturation are the important physicochemical characters, the studies focused on these parameters. In fact, the relationship among parameters affects to the properties of nanocomposite. For example, from the synthesis of magnetic iron oxide nanocomposite using clay materials, following factors significantly influence the properties of magnetization (Szabó et al., 2007):

  1. MNP content and phase

  2. Average particle size of MNPs, size distribution, and aggregation state

  3. Specific surface area and the porous structure of clay

  4. Homogeneity dispersion of iron oxide crystals in the clay matrix.

Surface characteristics consist of hydrophobicity, specific surface area, pore distribution, and nanoparticle distribution are critical parameters of the nanocomposites. For adsorption and catalytic purposes for example, higher specific surface areas provide more space for adsorption. Synthesis method and route are important factors for designing the properties.

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2 Synthesis of magnetic nanocomposites

2.1

2.1 Co-precipitation method

The synthesis of iron-based nanocomposites by co-precipitation method is the most efficient and straightforward wet chemical route which is generally synthesized from its salt species like Fe2+ and/or Fe3+ in alkali solution as shown in Table 2. the precipitation process of Fe3+/Fe2+ salt depends on the pH of the solution which generally occurs at a pH range between 8 and 14 with the Fe3+/2+ ratio at 2:1 under non-oxidizing conditions. The reaction of the synthesis of wet chemical route of magnetite nanoparticles is shown in Eq. (1)–(4).

(1)
Fe3+ + 3OH− →Fe(OH)3 (s)
(2)
Fe(OH)3 (s) → FeOOH (s) + H2O
(3)
Fe2+ + 2OH− →Fe(OH)2 (s)
(4)
2FeOOH(s) + Fe(OH)2 (s) → Fe3O4 (s) + 2H2O
Table 2 The list of some commonly used magnetic source for producing iron-based nanocomposites by co-precipitation method.
Magnetic source Modifier Type of iron oxide Reaction temperature (oC) Reaction period Solvent Particle size (nm) Magnetic saturation value (emu. g−1) Application Ref.
FeCl3, FeSO4·7H2O Zn-Mn Magnetite 80 20 min Water 13 74 Hyperthermia (de Mello et al., 2019)
FeCl3, FeSO4·7H2O Egg shell Magnetite 40 2 h Water 24 14.46 Cr removal (Sundararaman, 2020)
Fe(NO3)3·9H2O Ho(NO3)3·5H2O Hematite 78.3 60 min Ethanol 25–30 0.71 Catalyst (Nguyen et al., 2020)
FeCl3 SnCl2·2H2O Magnetite 100 30 min Ethylene glycol 4.85 49.7 NA (Radoń et al., 2020)
FeCl3·6H2O NiCl2·6H2O/ZnCl2 Ferrite NA 15 min Water NA NA NA (Yi et al., 2019)
FeCl3·6H2O ZnCl2 Ferrite 80 40–60 min Water 19 12 Hyperthermia (Ait Kerroum et al., 478 (2019))
Fe2(SO4)3·5H2O/FeSO4·7H2O Ce4+, Co2+, Mn2+, Ni2+ Magnetite 70 30 min Water 78.42 10.39 Photocatalyst (Andrade Neto et al., 242 (2020))
FeCl3, FeCl2 Sucrose Magnetite NA NA Water 4 17 NA (Jesus et al., 2020)
FeSO4·7H2O, FeCl3·6H2O Malic acid Magnetite RT 15 min Water 10–50 NA NA (Klencsár et al., 2019)
FeCl2·4H2O, FeCl3·6H2O Cellulose Hematite 30 2.5 h Water 5–100 13.2 As removal (Yu et al., 2013)
FeCl3·6H2O NiCl2·6H2O/ZnCl2 Ferrite NA 15 min Water NA 148.1 NA (Peng et al., 2017)
FeSO4, FeCl3·6H2O Biopolymer Magnetite 70 25 min Water 498 ∼30 Adsorbent (Lassalle et al., 2011)
FeCl3 CoCl2, porous carbon Ferrite RT 6 h Water NA 9.875 Phosphate removal (Karthikeyan et al., 2020)
Fe(NO3)3·9H2O Zn(NO3)2·6H2O, TiO2 Ferrite 90 2 h Water 11 NA Photocatalyst (Chandrika et al., 2019)
FeCl3·6H2O, FeCl2·4H2O Polydextrose sorbitol carboxyl methyl ether Magnetite 70 40 min Water 12.5 69.2 NA (Li et al., 2017)

Mello et al. (2019) synthesized the Zn-Mn-doped magnetite nanoparticles by co-precipitation method with the FeCl3 and FeSO4·7H2O as the precursors with the average of particle size of 10–15 nm (de Mello et al., 2019). The authors reported that the type of precursors is a mainly factor in the synthesis of magnetite nanoparticles by co-precipitation method. In addition, the several factors that have affected the particle size of the prepared nanoparticles by this method are operating temperature, the absence or presence of the stabilizing agent, reaction time, and the pH (Mascolo et al., 2013). The doping with other metals like Zn2+ and Mn2+ can improve the magnetization properties compared to pure magnetite. In their research, the addition of Zn2+ and Mn2+ can change the crystal structure which affects the electron migration in the structure. The doping system has been widely reported that it can improve intrinsic properties, especially its permanent magnetic properties. For example, Li et al. (2019) reported that intrinsic properties of the microstructure of nanocomposites (La, Pr)3Fe14B is dependent on La content. The doping system with rare earth metal could improve the permanent magnetic properties (Li et al., 2019). Rare earth metal has an electron in orbital 4f that close with atomic core and show spin–orbit solid interaction. Therefore, the metal has been widely exploited as doping for producing permanent magnetic materials (Skomski et al., 2006).

Yu et al. (2013) prepared the magnetic composites of cellulose/iron oxide nanoparticles in the NaOH-thiourea-urea-H2O at operating temperature of 30 °C (Yu et al., 2013). The solution is used to increase the dissolution of cellulose chains in the preparing nanocomposites. The presence of magnetite nanoparticles can increase the specific of surface area until 100-fold with the average particle size of 61 nm in the cellulose matrix. Although, the cellulose is non-conductive polymer, however the nanocomposite shows the sensitive-magnetic induced with the magnetization value of 13.2 emu g−1. In their research, the synthesized nanocomposite has been applied for removing the heavy metal ions. With the presence of cellulose in the composite structure, the material exhibited a high adsorption capacity for As3+ due to the presence of functional group like hydroxyl (OH−). In other words, beside the addition of organic material for arranging the size, several studies also have reported that the shape and particle size of iron-based nanoparticles in the matrix composites can be controlled by adjusting ionic strength, pH, temperature, and type of salts (nitrates, acetates, chlorides, and sulfates) (Gnanaprakash et al., 2007; Yang et al., 2012). However, the ratio of precursors salts is a major factor to produce the high percentage of yields and desirable size of nanoparticles (Ramimoghadam et al., 2014). In fact, the previous studies have revealed that the increasing ratio of Fe3+/2+ can produce the larger particle size of nanoparticles. In other words, based on the previous research, the smaller particle size will be obtained under high pH conditions and ionic strength (Tartaj et al., 2004). Besides that, another study also reported and revealed that the temperature significantly increased the particle size of iron oxide nanoparticle due to the formation of goethite phase (Gnanaprakash et al., 2007). The co-precipitation method offers a high quantity of products; however, the produced material has not uniform size particle distribution (Liu et al., 2019).

2.2

2.2 Chemical vapor deposition (CVD)

Chemical vapor deposition (CVD) has proved that the method can produce the iron oxide nanocomposites with high performance as a solid material, produced one-dimensional nanomaterials, and high purity. This method is commonly used in a chamber with a reactive gas which can deposit on a substrate to produce a coating material. Moreover, this method offers high flexibility in producing material because of many databases reported (Majidi et al., 2016). Atchudan et al. (2019) reported a simple method for synthesis of iron oxide nanoparticles filled multi wall carbon nanotubes (IONP/MWCNTs) by CVD method (Atchudan et al., 2019). The results confirmed that the IONPs inside in the MWCNTs which have the narrow distribution of diameter at 9 nm. The authors reported that the purified materials could be done by washing the produced material with a simple acid etching method, while the other methods that have been reported the purified materials commonly used the mixture of nitric acid and hydrochloric acid. Chen et al. (2020) studied the Fe3C/N-doped carbon nanofibers nanocomposites by CVD as lithium storage anode. In this method, the nanocomposites was prepared at low annealing temperature with Fe3O4 as iron source and acetylene as carbon source (Chen et al., 2020). The microstructure and morphology of the prepared material showed that the material has ununiform diameter at 50–60 nm. Their studies proved that the diameter of nanomaterials can be controlled by the addition of some organic compounds like surfactant or hydrophilic/hydrophobic molecules when the synthesis process. The presence of organic molecules like surfactants plays an important role in the controlling of particle size on the dispersion and stability of solution (Ordóñez et al., 2020). However, the high modifier on the composites also can decrease the pore volume of the prepared materials due to the agglomeration process. Fig. 1 shows the illustration of the synthesis of iron-based nanocomposite materials.

The representative of the synthesis of iron-based nanocomposite materials using the organic molecules as modifier (Chen et al., 2020).
Fig. 1
The representative of the synthesis of iron-based nanocomposite materials using the organic molecules as modifier (Chen et al., 2020).

Ren et al. (2018) reported the synthesis of amorphous iron (III) phosphate/carbon nanotubes (FePO4/CNTs) at low processing temperature (∼300 °C) and low vacuum conditions (4–8 Torr) (Ren et al., 2018). The authors proved that the temperature is an essential factor for the decomposition of precursors on the substrate. At temperature less than 250 °C, the precursors did not decompose and slowly deposition on the substrate. Besides the temperatures, the other factors that have affected the synthesis process by CVD such as the processing time, the gas flow rate, the catalyst, and also the precursors (Lopez et al., 2015). However, recently, the CVD is probably the most versatile synthesis method for producing iron-based nanocomposites because this method offers several advantages such as cheap and simple method for mass production of nanomaterials, and it can be used to grow the different forms of nanostructure. Table 3 shows the list of some commonly used magnetic source for producing iron-based nanocomposites by CVD methods (Shah and Tali, 2016).

Table 3 The list of some commonly used magnetic source for producing iron-based nanocomposites by CVD methods.
Magnetic source Modifier Type of iron oxide Reaction temperature (oC) Reaction period General Remarks Particle size (nm) Magnetic saturation value (emu. g−1) Application Ref.
Fe(CO)5 Alloy (Na, Ga, B) NA 120 30 min Ar atmosphere 50–100 NA NA (Jun et al., 2013)
Fe(NO3)3·9H2O CNTs Goethite 700 30 min Ar and CH4 atmosphere 40–60 13.79 Pb removal (Alijani et al., 2014)
Fe(acac)3 MWCNTs Magnetite 800 30 min Ar and C2H2 atmosphere NA NA Capacitors (Atchudan et al., 2019)
Fe pure 3-triethoxysilypropylamine, paracyclophane dimer NA 650 NA Vacuum atmosphere 65 125.8 Coating layer (Zhang et al., 2020)
Fe3(CO)12 Fe/Fe oxides/metal oxide Magnetite 450 40 min Preassure at 10−3/−4 Pa without using any carrier gas 3 NA NA (Vangelista et al., 2012)
Ni0.5Zn0.5Fe2O4 MWCNTs Hematite 750 30 min Ar atmosphere ∼50 NA MW absorber (Mustaffa et al., 2019)
Fe(hfa)2 TMEDA (hfa = 1,1,1,5,5,5-hexafluoro-2,4-pentanedionate; TMEDA = N,N,N’,N’–tetramethylethylenediamine) Au metal Ferrite 400 60 min Dry O2 (P = 3.0 mbar)end 60 NA NA (Maccato et al., 2018)
FeCl3·6H2O CNFs/Polypyrole Magnetite 500 20 min C2H2 atmosphere 50–60 NA Energy storage (Chen et al., 2020)
FeCl3 Carbon Magnetite 450 10–30 min C2H2 atmosphere and Ar carry gas <100 nm NA Energy storage (Wang et al., 2015)
Fe(NO3)3·9H2O Co2+ Ferrite 700 30 min C2H2 atmosphere and N2 carry gas 500 2.61 Catalyst (Dhand et al., 2017)

2.3

2.3 Electrochemical synthesis

Electrochemical method has been widely used for generating synthesis of iron-based nanocomposites with different phases of iron oxide like magnetite and maghemite as shown in Table 4. In general, electrochemical synthesis can be done by passing an electric current between two or more electrodes called anodes and cathodes on the electrolyte solution medium. In this technique, the anode metal will be oxidized into its ion species and then the ion will be reduced by the cathode to metal with the presence of stabilizers. In fact, electrochemical synthesis occurs at the interface of electrolyte and electrode and form electric double layers. This method can highly produce a large percent yield of products compared to the chemical synthesis routes. Ansari et al. (2020) studied the synthesis of iron/graphene composites with electrochemical exfoliation using a surfactant as stabilizers to produce nanoparticles (Ansari et al., 2020). The authors presented that the surfactant is a major component in the synthesis of iron oxide nanocomposites because it can control the stabilization of the iron species in the electrolyte solution and can reduce their oxidization by the dissolved oxygen. However, the increasing concentration of surfactants can reduce the magnetization properties of the composites by forming a layer on the surface of the nanoparticles which causes the agglomeration process (Haramagatti et al., 2018). Besides, the presence of surfactants as stabilizer, several factors affect the process of electrosynthesis of iron-based nanocomposites such as type of both electrodes (anode and cathode), the type and concentration of electrolyte solution, temperature, pH, and also electrolysis type (galvanostatic or potentiostatic) (Ramimoghadam et al., 2014). However, two key factors that influence the reaction process that occurs are the cell potential and the current applied which can be changed during the reaction as a function of time.

Table 4 The list of some commonly used magnetic source for producing iron-based nanocomposites by electrochemical methods.
Magnetic source Modifier Type of iron oxide Reaction temperature (oC) Reaction period General Remarks Particle size (nm) Magnetic saturation value (emu. g−1) Application Ref.
Fe pure NA Magnetite RT 4 h LiCl-C2H5OH solution, Potential at 0,4 V 40 35.5 NA (Starowicz et al., 2011)
Fe metals NA Magnetite RT 10 min ((CH3)4NCl) and NaCl in ethanol:water (1:1) 8–13 86.85 NA (Marín et al., 2016)
(NH4)2Fe(SO4)2(H2O)6 Graphene Magnetite, maghemite RT 3 h HCl-H2O solvent, Potential at 10 V, SDSs as surfactant 20–30 57.3 NA (Ansari et al., 2020)
FeCl3·6H2O Triethanolamine Maghemite RT 2 h NaOH solution 450 84.40 Supercapacitor (Elrouby et al., 2017)
Sponge Iron NA NA 30–50 >10 h Working electrode at 1 cm2, OH− solution NA NA NA (Sun et al., 2018)
Iron rods Ethylene glycol Magnetite, hematite RT 15 min Ammonium fluoride solution, Potential at 50 V NA NA Water splitting (Lucas-Granados et al., 2018)
Iron metals 1, 3, 5- benzenetricarboxylic acid (BTC) NA NA NA Potential at 12 V 100–200 NA As removal (Zhang et al., 2018)
FeSO4 Polyvinyl alcohol, CNTs Magnetite RT 3 h The current density at 348 mA cm−2 33 NA Antibacterial (Sadeghfar et al., 2018)
FeSO4·7H2O MWCNTs NA NA NA Na2SO4 solution 50 NA Catalyst (Torabi and Sadrnezhaad, 2010)
Iron plate Hexagonal mesoporous spheres (HMS) NA RT 3 h Na2S2O3 solution >200 2.9 NA (Wang et al., 2007)

Starowicz et al. (2011) revealed that the particle size of iron-based nanoparticles can be controlled by the type of electrolyte solution (Starowicz et al., 2011). In the water medium, the particle size of iron nanoparticles has an average size of nanoparticles between 20 and 40 nm, while at the presence of another solvent like ethanol, the particle size can be obtained less than 20 nm. The electrosynthesis of iron-based nanoparticles can be conducted in constant current (galvanostatic), at this condition the iron will be oxidized in anode electrode while in the cathode electrode will be produced the hydroxyl ion (OH−). Then, the iron ion produced will lead to form Fe(OH)2 which will be converted to iron oxide through the Schikorr reaction 3Fe(OH)2 → Fe3O4 + 2H2O + H2. Based on the principle, the water medium plays an important role to generate the production of iron hydroxyl species. However, in the pure water medium, the process will occur at a high rate so that the presence of ethanol in the water can regulate the water concentration and reduce the formation rates which can produce smaller particle sizes (Karimzadeh et al., 2016). The electrochemical method offers some advantages in iron oxide synthesis such as easily controlling size distribution and high production rate; however, this method is difficult to control the high crystallinity of the produced material (Setyawan and Widiyastuti, 2019). Fig. 2 shows the illustration of electrochemical cell for synthesis of iron-based nanoparticles.

The illustration of electrochemical synthesis of iron-based nanoparticles.
Fig. 2
The illustration of electrochemical synthesis of iron-based nanoparticles.

2.4

2.4 Solvothermal method

Synthesis of magnetic nanomaterials, classifications, and its applications by solvothermal method have been presented in the literature Table 5. The solvothermal method is one of the well-known techniques in the fabrication of magnetite materials. This method is almost similar to the hydrothermal method in the synthesis procedure, except the use of water as a solvent is replaced by an organic solvent (Feng et al., 2017). The solvothermal method is sometimes referred to the alcohothermal and glycothermal method when the class of alcohol and glycerol are used as a solvent in the reaction (Erdemi and Baykal, 2015). In fact, there have been many experiments using both classes of solvents, where this is an important strategy to control the shape, phase, and size distribution of crystal in magnetite materials. The physical properties of magnetite materials can be adjusted using several parameters such as the type of precursor, solvent, temperature and reaction time (Kefeni et al., 2017). In the one-step supercritical synthesis of magnetic iron nanoparticles, pressure and temperature conditions facilitate the product crystallization process through the dissolution and diffusion of iron salts. The reaction mechanisms are naturally highly system dependent. The aqueous solution of the iron salt is brought to its subcritical temperature, and the low dielectric constant will instantly force the nanoparticles to precipitate so that nucleation occurs instantaneously. Then tiny and homogeneous iron particles with a very narrow size distribution obtained from the simultaneous deposition of numerous iron nuclei (Nunes et al., 2019).

Table 5 The list of some commonly used magnetic source for producing iron-based nanocomposites by solvothermal methods.
Magnetic Source Modifier Solvent Reaction Temperature (oC) Reaction Period Particle Size (nm) Magnetic Saturation Value (emu.g−1) Iron Form Application Classification Ref.
Fe(acac)3 Cu2+ Triethylene glycol 260 24 h 19.9 53.1 Magnetite Magnetic fluid hyperthermia Metal Oxide-based Material (Fotukian et al., 2020)
FeCl3·6H2O Mn2+, Carbonyl Iron (CI) Ethylene glycol, Silicone Oil 200 12 h 21.4 58.8 Magnetite MR Fluids (Smart Material) Metal Oxide-based Material (Wang et al., 2020)
FeCl3·6H2O Trisodium Citrate (TSC) Dihydrate Ethylene glycol 200 10 h 280 70.2 Magnetite Identification of glycopeptides in human saliva Metal Oxide-based Material (Chu et al., 2020)
FeSO4·7H2O Zn2+, Mn2+, Bi3+, TEOS Ethylene glycol 180 5 h 60 17.72 Magnetite Adsorption and photocatalytic degradation of dyes Metal Oxide-based Material (Kaewmanee et al., 2020)
FeCl3, and FeCl2 Biomass-based Carbon, and Graphene Water, Ethanol 260 2 h 5–20 14.28 Magnetite and Maghemite NA Graphene-Mixed Carbon Material (Siddiqui et al., 2020)
FeCl3·6H2O Mn2+, Graphene Oxide (GO) Ethylene glycol, PEG-2000 200 10 h 30–100 25.5 Magnetite Photocatalytic degradation of dye Reduced Graphene Oxide-Based Material (Huang et al., 2019)
FeCl3·6H2O, FeCl3·4H2O Graphene oxide (GO), chitosan Ethylene glycol 180 12 h ∼ 250 46.5 Magnetite and Hematite Adsorption of aromatic compounds Graphene-Mixed Carbon Material (Rebekah et al., 2020)
FeCl3·6H2O Mg2+, Al3+, Graphene oxide and C2H8N2 Ethylene glycol 200 8 h 5–10 ∼ 18 Magnetite Adsorption of metal ions Graphene Oxide-Based Material (Huang et al., 2018)
FeCl3·6H2O, FeSO4·7H2O Ti4+, Graphene oxide Isopropanol 180 16 h 100–500 2.74–8.89 Magnetite Photocatalytic ozonation Graphene Oxide-Based Material (Chávez et al., 2020)
Fe(C5H5)2 N/A Hydrogen Peroxide, Acetone 200 48 h 5.6–18.6 26.8 Magnetite Photocatalytic degradation Carbon-Based Material (Zhang et al., 2020)
C15H21FeO6, Co(NO3)2·6H2O Spherical activated carbon (SAC) Benzyl Alcohol, Methanol, C4H6N2 (Hmim) 175 48 h 200–400 8.2 Magnetite Catalyst for Knoevenagel condensation Activated Carbon-Based Material (Xiang et al., 2020)
FeCl3·6H2O Mn2+, Glucose, Amine –NH2 Ethylene glycol, polyethylene glycol 200 12 h 40 26.5 Magnetite Heterogeneous Fenton catalyst Carbon-Based Material (Qin et al., 2020)
Fe(C5H5)2 PF-127, C10H6(OH)2 Ethanol, Hydrogen Peroxide 220 24 h ∼306 5.7–26.38 Magnetite Adsorbent of organic pollutant Carbon-Based Material (Cui et al., 2020)
FeCl3·6H2O, FeSO4·7H2O Biomass-based Carbon Water 230 24 h ∼ 10–20 9.73 Magnetite Adsorption of Tetracycline Activated Carbon-Based Material (Rattanachueskul et al., 2017)
FeCl3·6H2O, FeSO4·7H2O Biomass-based carbon Water 200 24 h ∼ 300 15.58 Hematite Adsorption of Mercury Activated Carbon-Based Material (Wang et al., 2018)
FeCl3·6H2O, FeSO4·7H2O Starch-based carbon Water, NH4OH 200 12 h ∼ 2–10 ∼ 130 Magnetite Biomedical application Carbon-Based Material (Lee et al., 2019)
FeCl3·6H2O 3D carbon nanofiber, Dopamine hydrochloride Ethylene Glycol, PEG-2000 200 8 h ∼ 200–250 13.4–39.7 Magnetite Electromagnetic shielding Carbon-Based Material (Zhan et al., 2018)
FeCl3 Biomass-based carbon Diethylene Glycol (DEG) 200 24 h ∼ 10–11 11.9–22.7 Magnetite Adsorption and Fenton degradation of dye Activated Carbon-Based Material (Liu et al., 2017)
FeCl3·6H2O MCNTs, SDBS Ethylene Glycol 180 8 h 400 ∼ 50–60 Magnetite Microwave adsorption and Supercapacitor Carbon-Based Material (Zeng et al., 2020)
FeCl3·6H2O Ni2+, Carbon Paste, Graphite Powder, Paraffin oil Ethanol, Ethylene Glycol, PEG 160 7 h 31 70–80 Magnetite Electrochemical sensor Carbon-Based Material (Tajyani and Babaei, 2018)
FeCl3·6H2O Glucose, Ammonia Ethylene Glycol, PEG 200 6 h 138–416 40 Magnetite Laccase immobilization Carbon-Based Material (Lin et al., 2017)
FeSO4·4H2O C31H28O12 Water 160 8 h ∼ 40–80 ∼ 25 Magnetite Adsorption of heavy metal ions Natural Polymer-Based Material (Shi et al., 2020)
FeCl3·6H2O Montmorillonite, Hexandiamine Ethylene Glycol 198 6 h 30–50 15 Magnetite Adsorption of heavy metal ions Clay-Based Material (Irawan et al., 2019)
FeCl3·6H2O Bentonite, C2H4(NH2)2 Ethylene Glycol 200 8 h 10–50 15.1–37.4 Magnetite Adsorption of heavy metal ions Clay-Based Material (Yan et al., 2016)
FeCl3·6H2O, CoCl2·6H2O Mn2+, Bentonite, APTES Ethylene Glycol 200 12 h ∼ 110 7 Magnetite Adsorption of heavy metal ions Clay-Based Material (Zhou et al., 2019)
FeCl3·6H2O, FeSO4·7H2O Halloysite, Carbon paste, Graphite powder, Paraffin oil Water 105 12 h ∼ 30–50 25.1 Magnetite Electrochemical detection of Hg (II) Clay-Based Material (Fayazi et al., 2016)

The solvothermal process of most common magnetic material is carried out through the process of hydrolysis and oxidation of iron salt solutions as a precursor or neutralization process of mixed metal hydroxides in aqueous media which can cause the formation of ferrite. During the solvothermal process, the chemical reaction between the precursor and the solvent takes place in a sealed autoclave reactor at very high temperature (ca. 130–250 °C) and autogenous pressure (ca. 0.3–4 MPa) (Sharifianjazi et al., 2020; Qiao et al., 2019). This condition can increase the solvent ability to dissolve the precursors and accelerate the formation of products.

For example, Fotukian et al. (2020) successfully synthesized of Fe3O4 and monodisperse CuFe2O4 with triethylene glycol as the solvent and stabilizer for the application of magnetic fluid hyperthermia through solvothermal process at 260 °C for 24 h. The obtained Fe3O4 and CuFe2O4 exhibited very small particles size with great superparamagnetic properties. Another experiment was conducted by Huang et al. (2019) to fabricate magnetically separable reduced graphene oxide supported MnFe2O4 hybrids (rGO/MnFe2O4) by one-pot solvothermal synthesis for photocatalytic degradation of dye. The results show that the rGO nanosheets was embedded by monodisperse MnFe2O4 with uniform particles size. In the general procedure, the appropriate proportions of precursors and solvents are inserted into the sealed autoclave reactor and then placed in the oven at a predetermined temperature and time as shown in Figs. 3 and 4. Therefore, the solvothermal method can be used to control the shape and size of nanoparticles, also to improve physical and chemical properties of magnetic materials which can be utilized for industrial and biomedical applications. Some of the significant advantages of hydro/solvothermal synthesis are the use of appropriate eco-friendly solvents for the nucleation of homogeneous particles, the chemical activity of the reactant improve, intermediate and metastable products may be quickly produced, easy and precise control of the size, shape distribution, and crystallinity of the final product. While some of the disadvantages of this method are the need for quite an expensive autoclave, safety issues during the reaction process, and the impossibility of observing the reaction process (Rane et al., 2019).

The synthesis of Fe3O4 and monodisperse CuFe2O4 through solvothermal method by Fotukian et al. (2020).
Fig. 3
The synthesis of Fe3O4 and monodisperse CuFe2O4 through solvothermal method by Fotukian et al. (2020).
(a) A synthesis model of magnetically separable reduced graphene oxide supported MnFe2O4 hybrids (rGO/MnFe2O4) by one-pot solvothermal synthesis by Huang et al. (2019); SEM images: (b) pure MnFe2O4 and (c) 10% rGO/MnFe2O4; TEM image of (d) 10% rGO/MnFe2O4 and (e) Hysteresis loops comparison of pure MnFe2O4 and 10% rGO/MnFe2O4.
Fig. 4
(a) A synthesis model of magnetically separable reduced graphene oxide supported MnFe2O4 hybrids (rGO/MnFe2O4) by one-pot solvothermal synthesis by Huang et al. (2019); SEM images: (b) pure MnFe2O4 and (c) 10% rGO/MnFe2O4; TEM image of (d) 10% rGO/MnFe2O4 and (e) Hysteresis loops comparison of pure MnFe2O4 and 10% rGO/MnFe2O4.

2.5

2.5 Microemulsion

Synthesis of magnetic nanomaterials, classifications and its applications by microemulsion method have been presented in the literature Table 6. Microemulsion is a stable colloidal suspension in two phases which do not dissolve each other and combine into one phase with the help of surfactants (such as Tween 80, sodium dodecyl sulphate, brij, etc.). The microemulsion solvent can be either the water/oil (w/o) or oil/water (o/w) system (Qiao et al., 2019). While magnetic nanoparticle precursors are dispersed into aqueous phase with the size of 1–100 nm. The microemulsion mechanism begins with the formation of a micelle system as a nanoreactor caused by water droplets containing magnetic nanoparticles encircled by surfactant molecules. Nucleation, growth and agglomeration of magnetic nanoparticles are restricted by micelle layers. After that, the second emulsion is added to the solution to precipitate magnetic nanoparticles (Sharifianjazi et al., 2020).

Table 6 The list of some commonly used magnetic source for producing iron-based nanocomposites by microemulsion methods.
Magnetic Source Modifier Solvent Reaction Temperature (oC) Reaction Period Particle Size (nm) Magnetic Saturation Value (emu.g−1) Iron Form Application Classification Ref.
FeCl3, FeCl2 Mn2+, Zn2+, S2−, SDS and TEOS Water, Toluene, Isopropanol 60 NA 45 31.7 Magnetite Drug delivery system Metal Oxide-based Material (Dung et al., 2016)
K4[Fe(CN)6] NaOH, Hydrazine Water, PEG-2000, Triton X-100, Amyl alcohol, Cyclohexane 180 20 h 200–600 NA Magnetite Lithium-Air battery Metal Oxide-based Material (Lv et al., 2015)
FeCl3 TEOS, SDBS, Pyrrole (Py), Trisodium citrate (TSC) Dihydrate Water, Ethanol, Ethylene Glycol 4 12 h 110–240 0.02–0.48 Magnetite Microwave absorber Polymer-based Material (Liu et al., 2019)
Fe(acac)3 Oleic acid, Oleylamine, CTAB, Urea Water, Chloroform, Cyclohexane, Dibenzylether, Butanol 120 12 h 16.4 4.8 Magnetite Drug delivery system Silica-based Material (Asgari et al., 2019)
FeCl3·6H2O Sr2+, CTAB, TEOS Water, Butanol, Isooctane RT and 1050 24 h and 4 h 6.6 18.4 ε-Fe2O3, Magnetite, Hematite NA Silica-based Material (Nikolic et al., 2017)
FeCl3, FeCl2·4H2O Ta5+, PVP, Dipicolinic acid Water, Hexane 25 15 min 38 6.58 Magnetite Lipase immobilization MOF-based Material (Sargazi et al., 2018)
FeCl3·6H2O Oleic acid and Sodium oleate Water, Ethanol, Hexane, Octadecene 20 and 320 30 min and 24 h ∼ 8–18 ∼ 6–21 Magnetite Magnetic fluid fields Metal Oxide-based Material (Yu et al., 2018)
FeCl3·6H2O, (NH4)2Fe(SO4)2·6H2O Fatty Acids (C6-C11) Water, Acetone 80 30 min 8–12 NA Magnetite Adsorption of PAHs compound Metal Oxide-based Material (Liao et al., 2015)
FeCl3·6H2O Ca2+, Mg2+, Brij-35 Water, Hexane, Butanol 500–900 180 min 40–100 ∼ 6–9.5 Magnetite Drug delivery system Calcium-based Material (Foroughi et al., 2016)
NiCl2·6H2O, FeCl2·4H2O CTAB, Hydrazine Water, Hexanol, Octane, Butanol 70 60 min ∼ 7 11.4 Magnetite NA Metal Oxide-based Material (Beygi and Babakhani, 2017)
NH4Fe(SO4)2·12H2O, (NH4)2Fe(SO4)2·6H2O Ag3+, CTAB, Glucose Water 50 24 h ∼ 9–11 53 Magnetite NA Metal Oxide-based Material (Singh and Upadhyay, 2018)
FeCl3·6H2O, FeSO4·7H2O TMAAC, Sodium citrate, Chitosan Water, Atolin, Span-80, Tween-80 60 60 min <10 21.57 Magnetite Adsorption of dye Polymer-based Material (Yu et al., 2016)
Fe(acac)3 TEOS, CTAB, Oleic acid Water, Benzyl ether, Choloroform, Ethanol 70 30 min 220–260 39.7 Magnetite Adsorption of metal ion Silica-based Material (Meng et al., 2018)
FeCl3·6H2O, FeCl2·4H2O ω-TA, Benzoyl peroxide, PVA, DTAC, Glutaraldehyde Water, Butanol, Ethanol 70 7 h 30–40 47.84 Magnetite Biocatalyst Polymer-based Material (Jia et al., 2016)

For example, the synthesis process of core–shell Fe3O4@SiO2 nanoparticles using the reverse microemulsion method. In this method, one or two surfactants become stabilizers of the hydrolysis reaction and condensation in water droplets that contain magnetic material precursors that are well dispersed in the organic phase. Therefore, the aggregation process can be prevented when the formation of silica layers on the magnetic surface of nanoparticles happens (Asgari et al., 2019). Lv et al. (2015) revealed the novel synthesis of Fe3O4 particles pagoda-like microstructures using the microemulsion -assisted hydrothermal method for the application of Lithium-air batteries. The experimental results show that the increase in reaction time is very influential on the morphological evolution of samples from pagoda-like to flower- like shapes. In addition, the concentration of NaOH and polyethylene glycol (PEG)-2000 has a major role in the morphology of the final product.

Asgari et al. (2019) synthesized the core–shell structure of monodisperse magnetic mesoporous silica nanoparticles (MMSN) via inverse microemulsion method for anticancer drug carriers. In that study, Fe3O4 in urea solution acts as a water phase, silica precursors in cyclohexane as an oil phase, as well as cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB) and 1-butanol as surfactants and co-surfactants, respectively. This method is different from the conventional inverse microemulsion method because the magnetic precursors used will be coated by CTAB and oleic acid as surfactants in the core-phase, then silica formation in shell-phase. The experimental results reveal that the increase in reaction temperature from 70 to 120 °C affects the increase in the thickness of the silica layer as the shell-phase from 3 to 17 nm.

Another experiment by Sargazi et al. (2018) exhibited the synthesis of of Ta-MOF@Fe3O4 core/shell nanostructures through novel ultrasound-assisted reverse micelle (UARM) method in optimum conditions for a novel candidate for enzyme immobilization. The obtained product from this experiment has the particle size distribution of 38 nm, thermal stability at 200 °C and a large surface area. The SEM image of Ta-MOF@Fe3O4 core/shell reveals that the targeted enzyme is stably and efficiently loaded on the material substrate. Therefore, the method used and the obtained results can be developed for the application of other compounds in biology.

Some of the microemulsion synthesis methods' advantages are easy preparation, effectively control of nucleation, preventing agglomeration, low viscosity, low energy consumption, thermodynamic stability, and reversible microemulsion formation. While the drawbacks of the microemulsion synthesis are the use of a large number of surfactants, pH and temperature affect the stability of the microemulsion, the limited dissolving capacity for substances with high melting points, and has low crystallinity due to slow nucleation rate at low temperature resulting in low yields (Kefeni et al., 2017; Sharifianjazi et al., 2020; Simonazzi et al., 2018). The synthesis schematic of several magnetic materials via the microemulsion method can be seen in Figs. 5–7.

Schematic representation of the self-assembly in Fe3O4 particles synthesis (adapted from Lv et al., 2015).
Fig. 5
Schematic representation of the self-assembly in Fe3O4 particles synthesis (adapted from Lv et al., 2015).
The synthesis of Ta-MOF@Fe3O4 nanostructures via ultrasound assisted reverse micelle (UARM) by Sargazi et al. (2018).
Fig. 6
The synthesis of Ta-MOF@Fe3O4 nanostructures via ultrasound assisted reverse micelle (UARM) by Sargazi et al. (2018).
(a) The synthesis route of Fe3O4@mSiO2 nanoparticles via modified inverse microemulsion technique by Asgari et al. (2019); (b) TEM image of naked Fe3O4 nanoparticles; (c) Hysteresis loops of Fe3O4@oleic acid (blue) and Fe3O4@mSiO2 (orange).
Fig. 7
(a) The synthesis route of Fe3O4@mSiO2 nanoparticles via modified inverse microemulsion technique by Asgari et al. (2019); (b) TEM image of naked Fe3O4 nanoparticles; (c) Hysteresis loops of Fe3O4@oleic acid (blue) and Fe3O4@mSiO2 (orange).

2.6

2.6 Microwave-assisted synthesis

Synthesis of magnetic nanomaterials, classifications and its applications by microwave-assisted method have been presented in the literature Table 7. At present, synthesis of multipurpose material has widely used microwave-assisted heating methods to increase the reaction rate and good control of the magnetic nanoparticles formation (Kefeni et al., 2017). In the synthesis of magnetic nanoparticles by microwave-assisted method, electromagnetic irradiation occurs through ionic conduction and molecular motion of precursor solvents and reducing agents. Thermal energy will be generated from this process as the conversion form from electromagnetic energy (Bolade et al., 2020). Generally, the sample irradiation process exerts the temperature of 100–200 °C with fast reaction time (Gonzalez-Moragas et al., 2015).

Table 7 The list of some commonly used magnetic source for producing iron-based nanocomposites by Microwave-assisted methods.
Magnetic Source Modifier Solvent Reaction Temperature (oC) Microwave Power (Watt) Reaction Period Particle Size (nm) Magnetic Saturation Value (emu.g−1) Iron Form Application Classification Ref.
Fe(acac)3 Oleic acid Benzyl alcohol 205 800 30 min 5–7 97–98 Magnetite Magnetic fluid hyperthermia Metal Oxide-based Material (Kostyukhin and Kustov, 2018)
FeCl3, FeCl2 Sm3+ Ethylene Glycol, PEG 200 300 180 min ∼ 4.5 33 Maghemite Biomedicine Metal Oxide-based Material (Lastovina et al., 2018)
FeCl3·6H2O, FeCl2·4H2O Zn2+, Ag+, Br− Ethanol, Water NA 550 10 min ∼ 200 3.31 Magnetite Antifungal Metal Oxide-based Material (Hoseinzadeh et al., 2016)
Fe(acac)3 Trisodium citrate dihydrate Benzyl alcohol 180–210 300–500 ∼ 8 min ∼ 4–6 62 Hematite and Maghemite NA Metal Oxide-based Material (Gonzalez-Moragas et al., 2015)
Fe(NO3)3·9H2O Citric acid Water NA 750 2 min 25–30 28.8–86.5 Magnetite NA Metal Oxide-based Material (Radpour et al., 2017)
Fe(acac)3 Oleic acid, Oleylamine Ethylene Glycol, Isooctane 230–300 850 15–30 min 4, 20.50 and 200 42–95 Magnetite NA Metal Oxide-based Material (Liang et al., 2017)
Fe2(SO4)3 Sodium acetate Ethylene Glycol, PEG 200 300 10 min 52 58 Magnetite Hyperthermia application Metal Oxide-based Material (Sathya et al., 2017)
FeCl3·6H2O, FeCl2·4H2O Zr4+ Water RT 100–900 100 min 35 ∼ 2 Magnetite Antimicrobial in dental filler Metal Oxide-based Material (Imran et al., 2019)
Fe(acac)3 Pectin, β-isopropylglutaric acid Water, Acetic acid, Oleic acid, Oleylamine 185 100 30 min 4.3 50.1 Magnetite Adsorption of dye Metal Oxide-based Material (Rakhshaee and Noorani, 2017)
Fe(acac)3, Co(acac)3 NA Ethanol 150 800 180 min 10 NA Magnetite Acetone sensor Metal Oxide-based Material (Zhang et al., 2019)
FeCl3·6H2O Zn2+, TEOS, Trisodium citrate dihydrate Water, Ethylene Glycol, Diethylene Glycol (DEG) 160 NA 15–60 min ∼ 500 ∼ 18–80 Magnetite Photocatalytic degradation Metal Oxide-based Material (Liu et al., 2019)
Fe(C5H5)2, FeCl3 NA Ethanol, Acetonitrile NA 800 1.5 min 5–10 30.4 Magnetite NA Carbon-based Material (Kumar et al., 2017)
FeCl3·6H2O Graphene Oxide, Oleic acid Benzyl alcohol 176 300 10 min 2–8 ∼ 5–15 Magnetite and Maghemite NA Reduced Graphene Oxide-Based Material (Bertran et al., 2020)
Fe(C5H5)2 Graphite Oxide Powder Ethanol NA 700 1.75 min ≤ 400 NA Magnetite High performance Lithium batteries Reduced Graphene Oxide-Based Material (Kumar et al., 2018)
FeCl3·6H2O NaAc, H3BTC Water, Ethylene Glycol 150 300 30 min ∼ 200 15.1 Magnetite Adsorbent and Photocatalyst MOFs-Based Material (Li et al., 2019)
FeCl3·6H2O, FeCl2·4H2O SDS, DVB, Acrylic Acid, KPS and PVP40 Water, Ethylene Glycol, PEG-200 200 and 80 900 30 min 25–33 22.5 Magnetite Biomedical, catalysis and Magnetic sensor Polymer-Based Material (Jaiswal et al., 2018)
FeCl3·6H2O Mg2+, TEOS, Ammonia chloride Water, Ethanol, Ethylene Glycol, PEG200 160 NA 30 min ∼ 615 66.5 Magnetite Adsorption of heavy metal ions Silica-Based Material (Zhao et al., 2017)
FeCl3, FeCl2 HCl, NaOH, Sodium cilicate, APTES Water 80 1400 ∼ 12 min ∼ 4–9 NA Magnetite Adsorption of heavy metal ions Silica-Based Material (Mahmoud et al., 2016)

Compared to conventional heating methods, microwave-assisted synthesis is based on efficient heating of the sample by dielectric heating effect. Dielectric heating in the sample works by two main mechanisms, namely dipolar polarization and ion conduction which will induce electrons in the sample, and then convert them into kinetic energy which is ultimately converted into heat (Morsali et al., 2020). Furthermore, the major advantages of microwave-assisted synthesis are increased uniform reaction rate, high reproducibility, high yield and purity of product, lower processing cost, small and narrow particle size distribution, and energy saving compared to other conventional approaches. While this method has major limitations, namely the type of vessel/reactor used and in-situ temperature measurement (Gupta et al., 2018). Mahmoud et al. (2016) synthesized a functionalized nanomagnetic iron oxide with 3-aminopropyltriethoxysilane [Nano-Fe3O4–SiO2–NH2] through microwave-assisted heating method for heavy metals ions extraction from aqueous solution. The results of microwave-assisted adsorption revealed that the maximum adsorption capacity of Cu (II), Cd (II) and Hg (II) was 1050, 350 and 350 µmol.g−1 after 25, 15 and 25 s heating periods, respectively. In addition, the microwave-assisted adsorption method exhibited the excellent performance in the process of extracting heavy metal ions in aqueous solution.

Jaiswal et al. (2018) reported the rapid synthesis of highly crystalline superparamagnetic Fe3O4 nanoparticles via microwave-assisted method. The obtained Fe3O4 nanoparticles have the crystallite size of 25 to 33 nm. Furthermore, the synthesis of spherical polymers magnetic composite (PMCs) from PVP-stabilized Fe3O4, is carried out through microwave-irradiated emulsion polymerization using vinyl monomers. The characterization results indicated that the superparamagnetic Fe3O4 nanoparticles were integrated in a cross-linked polymer matrix (styrene–divinylbenzene-acrylic acid). The obtained Fe3O4 nanoparticles revealed superparamagnetic properties at 300 K with the saturation magnetization of 67.5 emu.g−1. Whereas the synthesized responsive magnetic PMC [Fe3O4/P(St-DVB-AA)] showed ferromagnetic properties at temperature intervals of 10–350 K which were different from the synthesized Fe3O4.

While Kumar et al. (2017) exhibited the large-scale synthesis of octahedral iron oxide nanocrystals (Fe3O4-ONCs) embedded on the reduced graphene oxide nanosheets (rGO NSs), (Fe3O4-ONCs@rGO hybrids) via microwave-assisted method. During the synthesis process, rGO NSs provide a structural board to implant positively charged Fe3O4-ONCs using the electrostatic assembly followed by the microwave reduction of rGO NSs. Experimental results indicated that Fe3O4-ONCs@rGO hybrids shows superior electrochemical performance better than Fe3O4-NPs@rGO, including better cycling stability and performance value, which may be affected by the embedded nano-size Fe3O4-ONCs in rGO NSs. Furthermore, this low-cost and fast synthesis method can be used in other structured hybrids for high-performance lithium batteries. The synthesis schematic of several magnetic materials via the microwave-assisted synthesis method can be seen in Figs. 8–10.

Illustration of microwave-assisted synthesis of Nano-Fe3O4-SiO2-NH2 adsorbent (Singh and Upadhyay, 2018).
Fig. 8
Illustration of microwave-assisted synthesis of Nano-Fe3O4-SiO2-NH2 adsorbent (Singh and Upadhyay, 2018).
Schematic of the microwave-assisted synthesis of Fe3O4 nanoparticles and Fe3O4/poly(styrene–divinylbenzene-acrylic acid) composites by Jaiswal et al. (2018).
Fig. 9
Schematic of the microwave-assisted synthesis of Fe3O4 nanoparticles and Fe3O4/poly(styrene–divinylbenzene-acrylic acid) composites by Jaiswal et al. (2018).
(a) The synthesis schematic of Fe3O4-NPs@rGO hybrids by Kumar et al. (2018); (b) SEM Fe3O4-ONCs@rGO hybrids.
Fig. 10
(a) The synthesis schematic of Fe3O4-NPs@rGO hybrids by Kumar et al. (2018); (b) SEM Fe3O4-ONCs@rGO hybrids.

3

3 Future perspective

This review has summarized and highlighted several methods for synthesizing iron oxide nanocomposites, such as co-precipitation, chemical vapor deposition (CVD), electrochemical method, solvothermal, microwave, and micro-emulsion. Generally, the stability of the precursor material plays an essential role in the quantity of nanoparticles produced. In addition, several factors such as pH, temperature, supporting electrolyte, salts, etc., directly influence. The magnetic characteristics of the iron nanocomposite material are determined by the natural type of iron oxide itself. However, monitoring temperature during a process is crucial because the iron oxide can change the phase during the synthesis. Several routes of the synthesis of magnetic iron oxide nanocomposites have been well studied. Review presents the incorporating functional magnetic nanoparticles into the nanocomposite structures by different method with various nanoparticle size and saturation magnetization for such applications. The intensification of the synthesis for fast and greener method consist of microwave-assisted method was also addressed. Thus, we have recommended that researcher’s study large scale production and implementation, including the following:

  1. Modeling of synthesis procedure by simulating several factors influence on the performance of nanocomposite for applicability in industrial scale.

  2. Life cycle assessment on the synthesis method should be given to minimize chemical waste during synthesis.

Acknowledgement

The research has been funded by Chemistry Department, Universitas Islam Indonesia by Research Excellencies Support 2021.

Declaration of Competing Interest

The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

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