Synthesis and magnetic properties of Fe3C-C core-shell nanoparticles

Nanotechnology

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2015, Pages

  Liu, Jun ^a   Yu, Bowen ^a   Zhang, Qiankun ^a   Hou, Lizhen ^b,c   Huang, Qiulai ^a   Song, Chunrui ^a   Wang, Shiliang ^a,c   Wu, Yueqin ^c   He, Yuehui ^a   Zou, Jin ^c   Huang, Han ^c  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HUNAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

carbon; core shell nanoparticles; iron carbide; metal organic chemical vapor deposition

Indexed keywords

CARBIDES; CARBON; CATALYST ACTIVITY; INDUSTRIAL CHEMICALS; IRON OXIDES; MAGNETITE; METAL NANOPARTICLES; METALLORGANIC CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; NANOCLUSTERS; NANOMAGNETICS; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; ORGANOMETALLICS; SATURATION MAGNETIZATION; SHELLS (STRUCTURES); SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION; YARN;

ACETYLACETONATES; COMPARATIVE EXPERIMENTS; CORE SHELL NANO STRUCTURES; FORMATION MECHANISM; IRON CARBIDES; METAL ORGANIC; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT;

CORE SHELL NANOPARTICLES;

EID: 84922287369     PISSN: 09574484     EISSN: 13616528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/26/8/085601     Document Type: Article

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