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A Facile Chemical Synthesis of Silica Coated FeCo Nanocubes

Journal of Magnetics, Volume 25, Number 2, 30 Jun 2020, Pages 245-253
Komkrich Chokprasombat * (Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Thaksin University), Santi Maensiri (School of Physics, Institute of Science, Suranaree University of Technology)
Abstract
FeCo nanostructures are of interest because of their high magnetization and low coercivity which are suitable
for biomedical applications. However, particle morphologies are still difficult to control. In this work, the FeCo
nanocubes have been prepared by a chemical reduction method using hydrazine as a reducing agent. Using
only polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) as a capping agent without cyclohexane as previous works, the obtained particles
are quite uniform in shape and air-stable, and can be facile coated with silica. Nevertheless, to obtain the
uniform FeCo nanocubes, the concentration of sodium hydroxide used in the synthesis needs to be optimized.
The obtained FeCo nanocubes exhibit a high saturation magnetization of 220.9 emu/g and low coercivities of
around 180 Oe.
Keywords: nanostructures; FeCo; chemical reduction; silica coating
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4283/JMAG.2020.25.2.245
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