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A Flame-Reaction Method for the Large-Scale Synthesis of High-Performance Smx Coy Nanomagnets
Zhenhui Ma1,2, Hui Tian3, Liying Cong1
1College of Materials Science and Engineering, Key Laboratory of Advanced Functional Materials, Ministry of Education of China, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, 100124, China.
Abstract:
We report a flame-reaction method to synthesize high-performance Smx Coy (x=1, y=5; x=2, y=17) particles on a multigram scale. This flame reaction allows the controlled decomposition of Sm(NO3 )3 and Co(NO3 )2 to 320 nm SmCo-O (SmCoO3 + Co3 O4 ) particles. A 5.8 g sample of SmCo3.8 -O particles was coated with CaO and then reduced at 900 °C by Ca to give 4.2 g of 260 nm SmCo5 particles. The SmCo5 particles are strongly ferromagnetic and the aligned particles in epoxy resin exhibit a large room-temperature coercivity (Hc ) of 41.8 kOe and giant (BH)max (maximum magnetic energy product) of 19.6 MGOe, the highest value ever reported for SmCo5 made by chemical methods. This synthesis can be extended to synthesize Sm2 Co17 particles, providing a general approach to scaling up the synthesis of high-performance Smx Coy nanomagnets for permanent magnet applications.
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