F. Bodker et al., NITROGEN CHEMISORPTION ON ALPHA-FE NANOPARTICLES STUDIED BY IN-SITU MOSSBAUER-SPECTROSCOPY, Zeitschrift fur Physik. D, Atoms, molecules and clusters, 40(1-4), 1997, pp. 152-154
Carbon-supported metallic iron nanoparticles with an average diameter
of 2.3 nm were studied by in situ Mossbauer spectroscopy at temperatur
es down to 5 K and with applied magnetic fields up to 4 T. Nitrogen ch
emisorption at 300, 600 and 700 K on the iron particles was found only
to affect the iron atoms in the surface layers, resulting in surface
iron atoms bonded to nitrogen in a dumber of different types of enviro
nments.