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J Am Chem Soc. 2005 Mar 30;127(12):4126-7. doi: 10.1021/ja044419r.

Ligand effect on the growth and the digestion of Co nanocrystals.

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Anna C S Samia, Kylee Hyzer, John A Schlueter, Chang-Jin Qin, J Samuel Jiang, Samuel D Bader, Xiao-Min Lin

Affiliations

  1. Chemistry Division, Materials Science Division, and Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA.

PMID: 15783167 DOI: 10.1021/ja044419r

Abstract

The reaction product of cobalt carbonyl decomposition depends on the concentration of the oleic acid ligand. With a low concentration of ligand, nanocrystals nucleate and grow to large ferromagnetic particles through the process of Ostwald ripening and coalescence coarsening. With a high concentration of ligand, stable cluster complexes are formed. Addition or removal of ligand from the reaction products can interchange the formation of cluster complexes and nanocrystals.

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