title: First synthesis by liquid-liquid phase transfer of magnetic CoxPt100-x nanoalloys.
abstract: Controlled synthesis of magnetic nanoparticles with a well-known size and composition is always a challenge. A soft chemical synthesis was developed to obtain magnetic alloy nanocrystals with a high ability to control composition, size, and polydispersity. Cobalt-platinum alloy nanocrystals were synthesized using a colloidal approach by the liquid-liquid phase transfer method. Structural characterization using HRTEM and XRD was carried out on nanocrystals in the range of 25-75% cobalt composition, which indicated the formation of nanoalloy bimetallic CoxPt100-x. Adjusting the alkylamine capping agent and the kinetics of the reduction process allowed tuning of the size in the range of 1.8-4 nm while keeping an equiatomic composition. The narrow size distribution led to the possibility of inducing nanoparticle self-organization over a long range. The magnetic properties of the Co50Pt50 nanoalloy in the disordered face-centered cubic phase A1 were studied for different nanoparticle sizes.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire des Matériaux Mésoscopiques et Nanométriques, UMR CNRS 7070, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, 4 place Jussieu, 75252 Paris Cedex 05, France.
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authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Demortière
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Petit