PREPARATION, STRUCTURE AND MAGNETIC PROPERTIES OF SmCo5 NANOPARTICLES AND NANOFLAKES
LIU Rongming1,2, YUE Ming1, ZHANG Dongtao1,Liu Weiqiang1, ZHANG Jiuxing1
1. Key Laboratory of Advanced Functional Materials, Ministry of Education, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124
2. State Key Laboratory of Magnetism, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190
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LIU Rongming, YUE Ming, ZHANG Dongtao,Liu Weiqiang, ZHANG Jiuxing. PREPARATION, STRUCTURE AND MAGNETIC PROPERTIES OF SmCo5 NANOPARTICLES AND NANOFLAKES. Acta Metall Sin, 2012, 48(4): 475-479.
Abstract Surfactant-assisted high energy ball milling technique is a new method of producing magnetic nanoparticles. In this study, permanent magnetic SmCo5 nanoparticles and nanoflakes with high room-temperature coercivity values and narrow particle size distributions were produced by this technology and a subsequent size-selection process. The SmCo5 nanoparticles with average particle sizes of 9.8 and 47.5 nm, exhibited room-temperature coercivity values of 6.8×104 and 7.3×105 A/m, respectively, while the SmCo5 nanoflakes, with the mean particle size of about 1.4 μm and average thickness of 75 nm, showed excellent permanent magnetic properties with an obvious c-axis crystal texture, a strong magnetic anisotropy and high coercivity values of 5.5×105 and 1.6×106 A/m in their easy-axis and hard-axis directions, respectively. The coercivity values of SmCo5 nanoparticles and nanoflakes exhibited a significant particle size dependance effect.