Magnetic alloys in nanoscale biomaterials

Autor: Kate L. Klein, Michael L. Simpson, Ian M. Anderson, Anatoli V. Melechko, James R Thompson, Th. Leventouri, Timothy E. McKnight, K. D. Sorge, Philip D. Rack, Jason D. Fowlkes
Rok vydání: 2006
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Zdroj: Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A. 37:3423-3427
ISSN: 1543-1940
1073-5623
DOI: 10.1007/s11661-006-1036-4
Popis: Fe−Co composition gradient and Fe−Pt multilayer alloy films were tested as catalysts for groving vertically aligned carbon nanofibers (VACNFs) by plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD). The Fe−Co film yielded nanofibers with alloy tips in a wide compositional range varying from 8.15 pct Fe at the Co-rich end to 46.29 pct Fe in the middle of the wafer as determined by energy-dispersive X-ray analysis. Two Fe−Co cubic phases (SG Pm3m, \({\text{P}}m\overline 3 m\) were identified by preliminary X-ray diffraction (XRD) measurements. Magnetic measurements showed a substantially greater hysteresis loop area and coercivity in Fe−Co catalyst nanoparticles as compared to the asdeposited Fe−Co film. The Fe−Pt film did not break into FePt alloy nanoparticles under the applied processing parameters and thus the utility of FePt as a VACNF catalyst has been inconclusive.
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