Soft chemical conversion of layered double hydroxides to superparamagnetic spinel platelets

Year: 2008 DOI: 10.1021/cm703443q

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Yoji Kobayashi, Xianglin Ke, Hideo Hata, Peter Schiffer, Thomas E. Mallouk.   Chemistry of Materials, 2008, 20, 2374-2381.

Abstract

We report the synthesis of a wide range of single-crystal spinel platelets with exposed (111) faces, lateral dimensions in the micrometer range, and thicknesses of 20-50 nm, prepd. by soft chem. dehydration of well crystd. layered precursors. This method enables the synthesis of the metastable compn. NiCoAlO4, which cannot be prepd. by conventional solid state synthesis. Because of their nanoscale thickness, mosaic structure, shape anisotropy, and surface porosity, NiCoAlO4 and NiCo2O4 platelets exhibit room-temp. superparamagnetism (TB = 40 and 250 K, resp.) despite the fact that they have micrometer-size lateral dimensions. The accessibility of a wide range of superparamagnetic spinel platelets (as opposed to cubes or spheres) should be useful for studies in ferrofluids and related composite magnetic materials. [on SciFinder(R)]