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    • Bimagnetic nanoparticles with enhanced exchange coupling and energy products 

      Nandwana, Vikas; Chaubey, Girija Shankar; Yano, Kazuaki; Rong, Chuan-Bing; Liu, J. Ping (American Institute of PhysicsDepartment of Physics, The University of Texas at Arlington, 2009-01-06)
      Bimagnetic FePt/Fe3O4 nanoparticles with core/shell or heterodimer structure have been prepared using a sequential synthetic method. The dimension of both FePt and Fe3O4 was tuned by varying the synthesis parameters. The ...
    • Bulk FePt-based nanocomposite magnets with enhanced exchange coupling 

      Rong, Chuan-Bing; Nandwana, Vikas; Poudyal, Narayan; Liu, J. Ping; Kozlov, Mikhail E.; Baughman, Ray H.; Ding, Yong; Wang, Zhong Lin (American Institute of PhysicsDepartment of Physics, The University of Texas at Arlington, 2007-07-23)
      High density bulk FePt/Fe3Pt nanocomposite magnets have been prepared by high-pressure warm compaction of chemically synthesized FePt and Fe3O4 nanoparticles. It is found that the density increases with the compaction ...
    • Bulk FePt/Fe3Pt nanocomposite magnets prepared by spark plasma sintering 

      Rong, Chuan-Bing; Nandwana, Vikas; Poudyal, Narayan; Liu, J. Ping; Saito, Tetsuji; Wu, Yaqiao; Kramer, Matthew J. (American Institute of PhysicsDepartment of Physics, The University of Texas at Arlington, 2007-04-27)
      FePt/Fe3Pt bulk nanocomposite magnets have been prepared by the spark plasma sintering of chemically synthesized FePt and Fe3O4 nanoparticles under 100 MPa at 400–600 °C. It was found that the phase transition of the FePt ...
    • Curie temperatures of annealed FePt nanoparticle systems 

      Rong, Chuan-Bing; Li, Yang; Liu, J. Ping (American Institute of PhysicsDepartment of Physics, The University of Texas at Arlington, 2007-03-28)
      The chemically synthesized FexPt100-x nanoparticles with controlled compositions were annealed to transfer the disordered face-centered-cubic structure to the ordered structure. It was found that the L10 FePt structure can ...
    • Do thermal fluctuations influence the recoil loops of nanocomposite magnets? 

      Rong, Chuan-Bing; Liu, Yuzi; Liu, J. Ping (American Institute of PhysicsDepartment of Physics, The University of Texas at Arlington, 2008-07-11)
      An exchange-coupled FePt/Fe3Pt nanocomposite system with well defined hard/soft two-phase morphology was prepared by reducing chemically synthesized FePt/Fe3O4 bimagnetic nanoparticles. It was interesting to observe that ...
    • Fabrication of bulk nanocomposite magnets via severe plastic deformation and warm compaction, 

      Rong, Chuan-Bing; Zhang, Ying; Poudyal, Narayan; Xiong, Xiangyuan; Kramer, Matthew J.; Liu, J. Ping (American Institute of PhysicsDepartment of Physics, The University of Texas at Arlington, 2010-03-10)
      We demonstrate that a SmCo/FeCo based hard/soft nanocomposite material can be fabricated by distributing the soft magnetic α-Fe phase particles homogeneously in a hard magnetic SmCo phase through severe plastic deformation. ...
    • First-principles prediction of enhanced magnetic anisotropy in FeCo alloys 

      Wu, Dangxin; Zhang, Qiming; Liu, J. Ping; Yuan, Dingwang; Wu, Ruqian (American Institute of PhysicsDepartment of Physics, The University of Texas at Arlington, 2008-02-04)
      The structural, electronic, and magnetic properties of FeCo alloys were studied by first-principles calculations. It has been found that the alloys prefer chemically noncubic geometries in a wide composition range. This ...
    • High thermal stability of carbon-coated L1[subscript]0-FePt nanoparticles prepared by salt-matrix annealing 

      Rong, Chuan-Bing; Poudyal, Narayan; Chuabey, Girija S.; Nandwana, Vikas; Liu, Yuzi; Wu, Y.Q.; Kramer, Matthew J.; Kozlov, Mikhail E.; Baughman, Ray H.; Liu, J. Ping (Institute of Applied PhysicsDepartment of Physics, The University of Texas at Arlington, 2008-02-08)
      Monodisperse L10-FePt nanoparticles with size ranging from 3 to 8 nm were prepared by the salt-matrix annealing method. It was observed that the annealed particles have high thermal stability—no sintering occurred even ...
    • Mechanism of the anomalous temperature dependence of coercivity in Sm(Co,Fe,Cu,Zr)[subscript]z high-temperature magnets 

      Rong, Chuan-Bing; Zhang, Hong-wei; Shen, Bao-gen; Liu, J. Ping (American Institute of PhysicsDepartment of Physics, The University of Texas at Arlington, 2006-01-24)
      Coercivity mechanism of the precipitation-hardened Sm(Co,Fe,Cu,Zr)z high-temperature magnets was found to vary with temperature by measurements of reversible magnetization. The magnetization reversal is mainly controlled ...
    • Observation of L1[subscript]0-like chemical ordering in a decahedral FePt nanoparticle by C[subscript]s-corrected high resolution transmission electron microscopy 

      Hu, Xuerang; Xie, Lin; Zhu, Jing; Poudyal, Narayan; Liu, J. Ping; Yuan, Jun (American Institute of PhysicsDepartment of Physics, The University of Texas at Arlington, 2009-03-09)
      The state of the chemical ordering in a decahedral FePt nanoparticle was studied using aberration corrected high resolution transmission electron microscopy. With the reduced image delocalization effect as a result of ...
    • Phase Transformation and Magnetic Hardening in Isolated FePt Nanoparticles 

      Liu, J. Ping; Rong, Chuan-Bing; Nandwana, Vikas; Poudyal, Narayan; Chaubey, Girija Shankar (IEEEDepartment of Physics, The University of Texas at Arlington, 2009-03-31)
      Isolated monodisperse L1[subscript]0 FePt nanoparticles coated by carbon were obtained by adding enough surfactants that decomposed into carbon after the chemical synthesis and postannealing of the A1 FePt nanoparticles. ...
    • Rapid thermal annealing of FePt nanoparticles 

      Yano, Kazuaki; Nandwana, Vikas; Poudyal, Narayan; Rong, Chuan-Bing; Liu, J. Ping (American Institute of PhysicsDepartment of Physics, The University of Texas at Arlington, 2008-07-11)
      We report a systematic study on rapid thermal annealing (RTA) of FePt nanoparticles. FePt particles with an average size of 8 nm were synthesized by a chemical solution method, and then annealed using RTA and conventional ...
    • Shape control of FePt nanocrystals 

      Poudyal, Narayan; Chaubey, Girija Shankar; Rong, Chuan-Bing; Liu, J. Ping (American Institute of PhysicsDepartment of Physics, The University of Texas at Arlington, 2009-04-06)
      : FePt nanocrystals were prepared by simultaneous reduction of platinum acetylacetonate and thermal decomposition of iron pentacarbonyl in properly chosen solvents/surfactants. A variety of FePt nanocrystals, including ...
    • Structural phase transition and ferromagnetism in monodisperse 3 nm FePt particles 

      Rong, Chuan-Bing; Poudyal, Narayan; Chaubey, Girija Shankar; Nandwana, Vikas; Skomski, R.; Wu, Y.Q.; Kramer, Matthew J.; Liu, J. Ping (American Institute of PhysicsDepartment of Physics, The University of Texas at Arlington, 2007-08-30)
      FePt nanoparticles with a size of 3 nm and thermally stable room-temperature ferromagnetism are investigated. The monodisperse nanoparticles were prepared by chemical synthesis and a salt-matrix annealing technique. ...
    • Temperature- and magnetic-field-induced phase transitions in Fe-rich FePt alloys 

      Rong, Chuan-Bing; Liu, J. Ping (American Institute of PhysicsDepartment of Physics, The University of Texas at Arlington, 2007-06-01)
      Structural and magnetic properties of the FexPt100-x (x=78–88) alloys have been investigated. It is found that for all of the investigated compositions, a phase transition occurs from the disordered γ phase to the ordered ...