“…XRD patterns of the as-prepared Fe3O4, Fe3O4@SiO2, Fe3O4@SiO2@IIP, and Fe3O4@SiO2@NIP are shown in Figure 4. Compared with Fe3O4, Fe3O4@SiO2 showed the diffraction peaks of Fe3O4 at angles of 30.0°, 35.3°, 42.7°, 53.1°, 56.7°, and 62.3° corresponding to the (220), (311), (400), (422), (511), and (440) crystal planes of Fe3O4, respectively [24,25], which confirmed the successful compounding of Fe3O4 microspheres with SiO2. The XRD diffraction peaks of Fe3O4@SiO2@IIP and Fe3O4@SiO2@NIP were almost identical and became cluttered but, again, both retained the crystal plane of Fe3O4, verifying the successful introduction of Fe3O4 into the system of imprinted polymers.…”