Issue 46, 2008
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Journal of Materials Chemistry

Oriented magnetic nanowires with high coercivity

Y. Soumare,a   J.-Y. Piquemal,a   T. Maurer,b   F. Ott,b   G. Chaboussant,b   A. Falquic  and  G. Viau*c  

* Corresponding authors

a ITODYS, Université Paris 7-Denis Diderot, UMR CNRS 7086, case 7090, 2 Place Jussieu, Paris Cedex 05, France

b Laboratoire Léon Brillouin, CEA/CNRS UMR12, Centre d'Etudes de Saclay, Gif sur Yvette Cedex, France

c Université de Toulouse, INSAT, LPCNO, UMR CNRS 5215, 135, avenue de Rangueil, Toulouse Cedex 4, France
E-mail: guillaume.viau@insa-toulouse.fr

Abstract

CoNi magnetic nanowires with a mean diameter of 7 nm and a mean length in the range 100–300 nm have been prepared by reduction of a mixture of cobalt and nickel salts in a sodium hydroxide solution in a liquid polyol. The shape control is related to the particle growth rate which is strongly dependent on the basicity and on the Co–Ni composition. We show that high growth rate favours cobalt urchin-like particles while lower growth rate favours dumbbell-like bimetallic cobalt–nickel particles. Wire formation corresponds to an optimization of the growth conditions and is obtained in a narrow range of basicity and Co–Ni composition. Structural studies showed well crystallized wires with their long axis corresponding to the crystallographic c-axis of the hexagonal close-packed (hcp) phase. Multipods are also observed in which several wires have grown from a single nucleus presenting a cubic structure. Addition of surfactants (trioctyl phosphine and oleic acid) allows the modification of the wire surface and favours their dispersion in toluene. Square hysteresis curves are obtained on wires aligned under magnetic field and frozen in toluene or in PMMA with remanence to saturation ratio close to 1 and coercivity of 6.5 kOe. This value is much higher than was previously obtained on anisotropic particles prepared by the polyol process and results from an improvement of the shape control and the good crystallinity of the wires.

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Article information

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/B810943E
Article type
Paper
Submitted
27 Jun 2008
Accepted
10 Sep 2008
First published
27 Oct 2008

J. Mater. Chem., 2008,18, 5696-5702

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Oriented magnetic nanowires with high coercivity

Y. Soumare, J.-Y. Piquemal, T. Maurer, F. Ott, G. Chaboussant, A. Falqui and G. Viau, J. Mater. Chem., 2008, 18, 5696 DOI: 10.1039/B810943E

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