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Sm–Co hard magnetic nanoparticles prepared by surfactant-assisted ball milling

Yiping Wang, Yang Li, Chuanbing Rong and J Ping Liu

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Hard magnetic nanoparticles based on the Sm2Co17 and SmCo5 systems have been successfully produced using a surfactant-assisted ball milling technique. A size-selection process has been developed to obtain nanoparticles of different sizes with narrow size distribution. Significant room-temperature coercivity up to 3.1 kOe has been achieved with the Sm2Co17-based nanoparticles of an average size of 23 nm. It has been found that surfactants play multifold roles in the processing.


PACS

75.50.Tt Fine-particle systems; nanocrystalline materials

75.60.Ej Magnetization curves, hysteresis, Barkhausen and related effects

75.75.+a Magnetic properties of nanostructures

81.20.Wk Machining, milling

75.50.Cc Other ferromagnetic metals and alloys

Subjects

Condensed matter: electrical, magnetic and optical

Condensed matter: structural, mechanical & thermal

Nanoscale science and low-D systems

Dates

Issue 46 (21 November 2007)

Received 6 June 2007, in final form 7 September 2007

Published 12 October 2007



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