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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Journal of Nanomaterials Volume 2006, Article ID 54961, Pages 1–4 DOI 10.1155/JNM/2006/54961 Size-Dependent Specific Surface Area of Nanoporous Film Assembled by Core-Shell Iron Nanoclusters Jiji Antony,1 Joseph Nutting,1 Donald R. Baer,2 Daniel Meyer,1 Amit Sharma,1 and You Qiang1 1 Department of Physics, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID 83844, USA 2 EMSL, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99352, USA Received 31 January 2006; Revised 22 August 2006; Accepted 28 August 2006 Nanoporous films of core-shell iron nanoclusters have improved possibilities for remediation, chemical reactivity rate, and envi- ronmentally favorable reaction pathways. Conventional methods often have difficulties to yield stable monodispersed core-shell nanoparticles. We produced core-shell nanoclusters by a cluster source that utilizes combination of Fe target sputtering along with gas aggregations in an inert atmosphere at 7Æ C. Sizes of core-shell iron-iron oxide nanoclusters are observed with transmission electron microscopy (TEM). The specific surface areas of the porous films obtained from Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET) process are size-dependent and compared with the calculated data. Copyright © 2006 Jiji Antony 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 structure and their shells. Control over the iron nanoparticles by conventional methods is difficult. The knowledge of the Iron nanoparticles are interesting due to their smaller size cluster components