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Journal of Chemistry
Volume 2014, Article ID 837682, 6 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/837682
Research Article

One-Step Synthesis of Superparamagnetic Fe3O4@PANI Nanocomposites

Sanjeev Kumar and Sapna Jain

Department of Chemistry, University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun 248007, India

Received 11 May 2013; Accepted 20 November 2013; Published 29 January 2014

Academic Editor: Theocharis C. Stamatatos

Copyright © 2014 Sanjeev Kumar and Sapna Jain. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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