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Hindawi Publishing Corporation International Journal of Photoenergy Volume 2012, Article ID 608298, 5 pages doi:10.1155/2012/608298 Research Article Synthesis and Characterization of Iron Oxide Nanoparticles and Applications in the Removal of Heavy Metals from Industrial Wastewater Zuolian Cheng,1 Annie Lai Kuan Tan,1 Yong Tao,2 Dan Shan,2 Kok Eng Ting,1 and Xi Jiang Yin2 1 School of Chemical Life Sciences, Singapore Polytechnic, 500 Dover Road, Singapore 139651 2 Advanced Material Technology Centre, Singapore Polytechnic, 500 Dover Road, Singapore 139651 Correspondence should be addressed to Zuolian Cheng, cheng@.sg Received 16 January 2012; Accepted 17 February 2012 ´ Academic Editor: Stephane Jobic Copyright © 2012 Zuolian Cheng 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. This study investigated the applicability of maghemite (γ-Fe O ) nanoparticles for the selective removal of toxic heavy metals 2 3 from electroplating wastewater. The maghemite nanoparticles of 60 nm were synthesized using a coprecipitation method and characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) equipped with energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX). Batch experiments were carried out for the removal of Pb2+ ions from aqueous solutions by maghemite nanoparticles. The effects of contact time, initial concentration of Pb2+ ions, solution pH, and salinity on the amount of Pb2+ removed were investigated. The adsorption process was found to be highly pH depen