“…For the sample of pure magnetite, the vibrational bands at around 520 cm À1 and 310 cm À1 are characteristic of the m(Fe-O) lattice vibrations [57]. The silica coated magnetite sample shows a band at 1055 cm À1 and weak bands at 789 and 943 cm À1 corresponding to the stretching vibrations of m(SiO-Si), m(Si-OH) and m(Si-O-Fe), respectively [54,55,58]. In the amino modified nanoparticles the stretching band of m(Si-OH) at 790 cm À1 overlaps with the band from the d(N-H) bending vibration [52,58] and at ca.…”