PREPARATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OFIRON OXIDE NANOPARTICLES

A Project report submitted in Partial fulfillment of the requirements

for the BSc Degree in Chemistry

TO

UNIVERSITY OF CALICUT

By

RAZANA.P.K

(FKALSCH008)

DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRYFAROOK COLLEGECALICUT, KERALA

2014

CERTIFICATE

This is to certify that the project entitled “Preparation and

characterization of Iron Oxide nanoparticles ˝ submitted to the Dept. Of

Chemistry, Farook College in partial fulfillment of the requirement of award

of the degree of Bachelor of Science in chemistry is record of original

project work done by RAZANA.P.K during the period of her study in the

Dept. of chemistry, Farook College under my supervision and guidance. It is

further certified that no part of this project has been submitted elsewhere for

the award of any degree.

Dr .M. Zuhara Mr. Rafeeque.P

Head of the Department Asst. Professor

Department of chemistry Department of chemistry

Farook College Farook College

DECLARATION

I hereby declare that project entitled “Preparation and

characterization of Iron Oxide nanoparticles˝ was a bonafied report of my

work done at Farook College, Calicut during the period of my study under

the guidance of Mr.Rafeeque.P, Assistant professor, Dept. Of Chemistry,

Farook College and no part of this project is copied from any other research

work.

Place: Farook College RAZANA.P.K

Date:

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

With profound respect and immense gratitude, I praise and

thank the almighty for the blessing that sustained and helped me to complete

this project work.

I am ever indebted to Dr. M. Zuhara, Head of department

of Chemistry for valuable encouragement at every stage of this work. Her

timely suggestions have enabled me to finish this work, to the best of my

expectations.

I am thankful to our guide Assist. Prof. Mr. Rafeeque. P.

for his encouragement and supervision to carry out the project.

None of this would have been possible without the strong

support of Assist. Prof. Dr. Reji Thomas and my teammates who made this

project a successful one. I express deepest sense of gratitude to each of them.

CONTENTS

1. INTRODUCTION………………………………………………1

2. REVIEW OF LITERATURE……………………………………4

HISTORY REVIEW

3. APPLICATIONS……………………………………………….6

4. SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES…………………………………...8

5. MATERIALS AND METHODS……………………………….9

MATERIAL PREPARATION MATERIAL CHARACTERISATIONS

6. RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS………………………………13

7. CONCLUSION…………………………………………………17

8. REFERENCES………………………………………………….18