Shape control of FePt nanocrystals
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2009-04-06Author
Poudyal, Narayan
Chaubey, Girija Shankar
Rong, Chuan-Bing
Liu, J. Ping
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: 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 nanowires, nanorods, nanocubes, and nanosized multipods, were successfully obtained. The shape control was realized by simply varying synthesis parameters. The as-synthesized nanocrystals, having chemically disordered fcc structure, are found to be superparamagnetic at room temperature and their ferromagnetic-superparamagnetic transition temperature is size dependent that increases with particle size. The as-synthesized FePt nanocrystals were transformed to the chemically ordered L10 structure upon heat treatment, which exhibits hard magnetic properties with coercivity as high as 25 kOe.