Highly oriented cubic, hollow cubic and spherical nanoparticles of cobalt-iron Prussian blue analogues were synthesized in poly oxyethylene tertoctylphenyl ether (TritonX-100)/n-hexanol/cyclohexane microemulsion. The effects of the water-to-surfactant molar ratio (w), the reactant concentration and the reaction temperature on the morphology of cobalt-iron Prussian blue analogues were studied. The samples were characterized by transmission electron microscopy (TEM), field emission scan electron microscopy (FE-SEM), energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS), X-ray diffraction (XRD) and infrared spectroscopy (IR).
The critical behavior of pseudobinary microemulsion systems{water/sodium di(2-ethylhexyl)sulfo- succinate(AOT)/n-decane}with various droplet sizes was studied by measurements of refractive index. It was found that the critical exponentsβfor all systems approach 0.327 in a region sufficiently close to the critical temperature,which is consistent with 3D-Ising universality class.The critical temperatures linearly decrease as the dispersed droplet sizes increase.The critical amplitude almost linearly in- creases with increasing the dispersed droplet sizes.
