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Surface-functionalized core-shell nanoparticles by novel gas / cluster aggregation method

O. CRISAN1,* , A. D. CRISAN1

Affiliation

  1. National Institute for Materials Physics, P.O. Box MG-7, 077125 Bucharest-Magurele, Romania

Abstract

A simple and novel method for production of metal clusters as building blocks for nanoscale devices is presented. With this procedure, called the gas / cluster aggregation method, a wide range of clusters may be synthesised and, more important, these clusters may be subsequently modified and functionalized in-situ by adding atoms/molecules of different nature, on the surface of readily formed clusters. The cluster size is extremely well controlled by the vapor pressure of the picked-up species. Moreover, the method is versatile, since it allows multiple pick-up processes within the same rare gas cluster for producing, for example, core-shell nanoparticles with metal core and non-metallic shell or vice-versa, nano-onions, with different species successively attached to the surface of the initial picked-up cluster, and so on. Initial formation of Fe gasstabilised clusters and core-shell nanoparticles with Fe core and Fe oxide shell, as well as their structure and morphology, are presented and discussed. The core-shell nanoparticles show incipient self-organization into hexagonal cluster superlattice. Structural, magnetic and Mössbauer spectroscopy investigations have been performed on the Fe cluster samples. The magnetic properties of supported Fe clusters show marked differences compared to the bulk. A small hysteresis is observed in the parallel applied field while in the perpendicular case, lack of saturation at the highest applied field is noticed. Such behaviour has been also observed in FeRh [1] and AgCo [2] bimetallic nanoparticles. This behaviour marks the occurrence of a strong planar magnetic anisotropy in the sample and may also be a consequence of increased surface spin disorder and finite size effects, which are typical for nanoparticles in the reported size range..

Keywords

Nanoparticle, Functionalization, Gas/cluster aggregation method.

Submitted at: Oct. 2, 2009
Accepted at: Feb. 18, 2010

Citation

O. CRISAN, A. D. CRISAN, Surface-functionalized core-shell nanoparticles by novel gas / cluster aggregation method, Journal of Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials Vol. 12, Iss. 2, pp. 184-192 (2010)