NANOCOMPOSITES CONTAINING NANOCLUSTERS OF FE2P OR GAMMA-FE2O3

Citation
Cm. Lukehart et al., NANOCOMPOSITES CONTAINING NANOCLUSTERS OF FE2P OR GAMMA-FE2O3, Materials science & engineering. A, Structural materials: properties, microstructure and processing, 204(1-2), 1995, pp. 176-180
Citations number
13
Categorie Soggetti
Material Science
ISSN journal
09215093
Volume
204
Issue
1-2
Year of publication
1995
Pages
176 - 180
Database
ISI
SICI code
0921-5093(1995)204:1-2<176:NCNOFO>2.0.ZU;2-5
Abstract
Covalent incorporation of an organoiron complex into a silica xerogel matrix affords a single-source precursor for two different nanocomposi te materials. Thermal treatment of this molecularly doped xerogel unde r hydrogen produces a nanocomposite containing nanocrystals of Fe2P (b arringerite). Thermal treatment of this doped xerogel under oxidizing conditions gives a nanocomposite containing nanocluster of gamma-Fe2O3 (maghemite-Q). The latter result is unique in that thermal treatment of silica xerogels doped with ferric ions under similar thermal condit ions affords an undesired iron silicate, Fe2SiO4 (fayalite), as the pr inciple product. Preliminary magnetization measurements indicate that both nanocomposites exhibit interesting magnetic properties.