A method of room temperature synthesis of magnetic metal oxide nanoclusters within
a diblock copolymer matrix includes the step of synthesizing, by ring opening metathesis
polymerization technique, a diblock copolymer having a repeat unit ratio m/n, introducing,
at room temperature, one or several metal containing precursors into the one block
of the diblock copolymer, and processing the metal containing diblock copolymer
by wet chemical technique to form nanoclusters of the metal(s) oxide within the
diblock copolymer matrix. Specific reaction for synthesis of CoFe3O4
and Co3O4 nanoclusters within diblock copolymers, such as
[NOR]m/[NORCOOH]n and [NOR]m/[CO(bTAN)]n,
respectively is used in the method of the present invention.
