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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Journal of Nanomaterials Volume 2008, Article ID 361816, 6 pages doi:10.1155/2008/361816 Research Article Characterization of FeOOH Nanoparticles and Amorphous Silica Matrix in an FeOOH-SiO2 Nanocomposite Guido Ennas, Maria F. Casula, Sergio Marras, Gabriele Navarra, Alessandra Scano, and Giaime Marongiu Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche, Universita di Cagliari, Complesso Universitario S.S. 554, Bivio per Sestu, 09042 Monserrato, Italy ` Correspondence should be addressed to Guido Ennas, ennas@unica.it Received 30 July 2007; Accepted 3 December 2007 Recommended by Sang-Hee Cho A nanocomposite with an FeOOH/SiO2 ratio equal to 17.7 wt% and the pertinent matrix, obtained by etching away the nanopar- ticles through reaction with hydrochloric acid, were investigated by XRD, TGA-DTA, heliostereopicnometry, BET, and TEM tech- niques. The study shows the presence in the nanocomposite of ferrihydrite nanoparticles phase with average dimensions around 4 nm. The FeOOH nanoparticles structure was analyzed by synchrotron X-ray diffraction data using the distribution difference curve method. The porous structure of the matrix resulting by etching away the nanoparticles differs significantly from that of a pure SiO2 sample obtained by hydrolysis of TEOS under the same operative conditions followed in the nanocomposite prepara- tion. Copyright © 2008 Guido Ennas et al. 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. 1. INTRODUCTION etching away the nanoparticles through reaction with hy-