Tailored coordination nanoparticles: assessing the magnetic single-domain critical size

Chem Commun (Camb). 2011 Jan 21;47(3):1051-3. doi: 10.1039/c0cc03382k. Epub 2010 Nov 15.

Abstract

Negatively charged nanocrystals of the magnetic coordination network CsNiCr(CN)(6) were prepared in water through a seed-mediated growth with a few atomic layers accuracy and final sizes tailored from 6 to 30 nm. A lower limit of the magnetic single-domain critical size was determined to be around 15 nm possessing a blocking temperature above 20 K.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Cesium / chemistry
  • Chromium / chemistry
  • Cyanides / chemistry
  • Ferric Compounds / chemistry*
  • Magnetics
  • Nanoparticles / chemistry*
  • Nanoparticles / ultrastructure
  • Nanotechnology / methods
  • Nickel / chemistry
  • Particle Size

Substances

  • Cyanides
  • Ferric Compounds
  • Chromium
  • Cesium
  • Nickel