The authors are grateful to the financial supports from National Natural Science Foundation of China (30970819), Shanghai Science and Technology Com-mittee (09XD1402900), and Shanghai Leading Aca-demic Discipline Project (S30203).
Superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles with narrow size distributions were successfully prepared in large scale by a facile one-pot synthetic method in the presence of hydrophilic polymers, such as polyethylene gl...