Iron oxides in the laboratory: preparation and characterization

TLDR

Iron oxides are crucial across mineralogy, geosciences, environmental science, and technology, with growing interest in synthetic fine‑to‑ultrafine forms. The second edition aims to provide reliable, well‑tested, up‑to‑date synthesis methods for pure iron oxides. It expands the monodispersed particle section and refocuses characterization techniques on their relevance to iron oxides. The book retains proven syntheses while incorporating several new procedures.

Abstract

Iron Oxides play an important role in numerous disciplines. Since the publication of the first edition, there has been a surge of interest in synthetic fine to ultrafine iron oxides in a wide range of scientific and technological disciplines, especially in mineralogy, geosciences and environmental science and in various branches of technology. As before, the main aim of the second edition is to present reliable, well-tested, up-to-date methods of synthesizing pure iron oxides. The section on monodispersed particles, presently of great interest to industry, has been expanded. Furthermore the methods of characterization have been focused on their relevance to iron oxides. The well tried syntheses have been retained and some new ones have been incorporated.