Issue 55, 2016, Issue in Progress

A tandem polyol process and ATRP used to design new processable hybrid exchange-biased CoxFe3−xO4@CoO@PMMA nanoparticles

Abstract

We report herein the synthesis and characterization of exchange-biased CoxFe3−xO4@CoO@PMMA nanohybrids in which the inorganic core comprised a highly crystallized polyol-made ferrimagnetic cobalt iron spinel oxide nanoparticles perfectly epitaxied to an very thin antiferromagnetic polycrystalline cobalt monoxide CoO shell, whereas the organic coating comprised a layer of dense poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) chains. PMMA brushes were grown by atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP). The polymerization was monitored by combining infrared absorption (FTIR) and X-ray photoelectron (XPS) spectroscopy. The resulting nanohybrids are considered as potential building blocks for flexible magnetic recording devices. Their magnetic properties were then investigated by low temperature field cooling (FC) and zero field cooling (ZFC) magnetometry experiments. The obtained results agree fairly with a direct dependency of the coercivity and the remanence with the polymer chain length and then with the interparticle distance, emphasizing the role of material processing in the design of tailored flexible polymer based hybrid materials.

Graphical abstract: A tandem polyol process and ATRP used to design new processable hybrid exchange-biased CoxFe3−xO4@CoO@PMMA nanoparticles

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
16 Mar 2016
Accepted
04 May 2016
First published
06 May 2016

RSC Adv., 2016,6, 49973-49979

A tandem polyol process and ATRP used to design new processable hybrid exchange-biased CoxFe3−xO4@CoO@PMMA nanoparticles

L. Ourry, F. Mammeri, D. Toulemon, T. Gaudisson, M. Delamar and S. Ammar, RSC Adv., 2016, 6, 49973 DOI: 10.1039/C6RA06963K

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