Tuning of Synthesis Conditions by Thermal Decomposition toward Core鈥揝hell CoxFe1鈥?i>xO@CoyFe3鈥?i>yO4 and CoFe2O<

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• 作者：Walid Baaziz ; Benoit P. Pichon ; Yu Liu ; Jean-Marc Gren猫che ; Corinne Ulhaq-Bouillet ; Erwan Terrier ; Nicolas Bergeard ; Val茅rie Halt茅 ; Christine Boeglin ; Fadi Choueikani ; Mohamed Toumi ; Tahar Mhiri ; Sylvie Begin-Colin
• 刊名：Chemistry of Materials
• 出版年：2014
• 出版时间：September 9, 2014
• 年：2014
• 卷：26
• 期：17
• 页码：5063-5073
• 全文大小：652K
• ISSN：1520-5002

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Spherical core鈥搒hell Co_xFe_1鈥?i>xO@Co_yFe_3-yO₄ nanoparticles (NPs) as well as spherical and cubic shaped CoFe₂O₄ NPs were synthesized through a thermal decomposition method by adjusting parameters such as the nature of precursors and ligands. The use of metal (iron and/or cobalt) oleates and stearates as precursors in the presence of oleic acid as ligand leads to core鈥搒hell NPs, due to the reducing environment provided by oleate groups from the oleic acid and precursors. By contrast, the use of oleylamine as ligand favored the decomposition of precursors and less reducing medium, which allows obtaining NPs with homogeneous composition. In addition, cobalt ferrite cubic-shaped NPs were synthesized using mixed oleate formed in situ from metal iron chloride and cobalt chloride in the presence of sodium oleate. The as-synthesized NPs were carefully characterized by combining several techniques including TEM, XRD, ⁵⁷Fe M枚ssbauer spectrometry, STEM-EELS, and XMCD. The correlation between the crystalline structure and the magnetic properties was investigated by carrying out magnetic measurements as a function of an applied field and of temperature. The CoFe₂O₄ NPs were found to display high coercivity due to their homogeneous composition, while the core鈥搒hell NPs show higher blocking temperature and exchange bias properties originating from the interaction between the antiferromagnetic (AFM) core and the ferrimagnetic (FIM) layer at the surface.