Issue 29, 2016

Interfacial strain and defects in asymmetric Fe–Mn oxide hybrid nanoparticles

Abstract

Asymmetric Fe–Mn oxide hybrid nanoparticles have been obtained by a seed-mediated thermal decomposition-based synthesis route. The use of benzyl ether as the solvent was found to promote the orientational growth of Mn1−xO onto the iron oxide nanocube seeds yielding mainly dimers and trimers whereas 1-octadecene yields large nanoparticles. HRTEM imaging and HAADF-STEM tomography performed on dimers show that the growth of Mn1−xO occurs preferentially along the edges of iron oxide nanocubes where both oxides share a common crystallographic orientation. Fourier filtering and geometric phase analysis of dimers reveal a lattice mismatch of 5% and a large interfacial strain together with a significant concentration of defects. The saturation magnetization is lower and the coercivity is higher for the Fe–Mn oxide hybrid nanoparticles compared to the iron oxide nanocube seeds.

Graphical abstract: Interfacial strain and defects in asymmetric Fe–Mn oxide hybrid nanoparticles

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
17 Feb 2016
Accepted
18 Jun 2016
First published
22 Jun 2016

Nanoscale, 2016,8, 14171-14177

Interfacial strain and defects in asymmetric Fe–Mn oxide hybrid nanoparticles

A. Mayence, M. Wéry, D. T. Tran, E. Wetterskog, P. Svedlindh, C. Tai and L. Bergström, Nanoscale, 2016, 8, 14171 DOI: 10.1039/C6NR01373B

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