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  • Title: Nickel ferrite aerogels with monodisperse nanoscale building blocks--the importance of processing temperature and atmosphere.
    Author: Pettigrew KA, Long JW, Carpenter EE, Baker CC, Lytle JC, Chervin CN, Logan MS, Stroud RM, Rolison DR.
    Journal: ACS Nano; 2008 Apr; 2(4):784-90. PubMed ID: 19206611.
    Abstract:
    Using two-step (air/argon) thermal processing, sol-gel-derived nickel-iron oxide aerogels are transformed into monodisperse, networked nanocrystalline magnetic oxides of NiFe(2)O(4) with particle diameters that can be ripened with increasing temperature under argon to 4.6, 6.4, and 8.8 nm. Processing in air alone yields poorly crystalline materials; heating in argon alone leads to single phase, but diversiform, polydisperse NiFe(2)O(4), which hampers interpretation of the magnetic properties of the nanoarchitectures. The two-step method yields an improved model system to study magnetic effects as a function of size on the nanoscale while maintaining the particles within the size regime of single domain magnets, as networked building blocks, not agglomerates, and without stabilizing ligands capping the surface.
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