Chemical synthesis of Nd₂Fe₁₄B/Fe-Co nanocomposite with high magnetic energy product.

ABSTRACT: Nd₂Fe₁₄B is one of the most popular permanent magnets (PMs) possessing the best energy product (BH)_max among the common PM materials. However, exchange-coupled nanocomposite magnets fabricated by embedding nanostructures of soft-phase magnetic materials into a hard-phase magnetic matrix manifest higher remanence and a higher energy product. Here we present the fabrication of exchange coupled Nd₂Fe₁₄B/Fe-Co magnetic nanocomposites using gel-combustion and diffusion-reduction processes. Pre-fabricated CoFe₂O₄ nanoparticles (NPs) of ∼5 nm diameter were incorporated into a Nd-Fe-B oxide matrix during its synthesis by gel-combustion. The obtained mixed oxide was further processed with oxidative annealing at 800 °C for 2 h and reductive annealing at 900 °C for 2 h to form a Nd₂Fe₁₄B/Fe-Co nanocomposite. Nanocomposites with different mol% of soft-phase were prepared and characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and physical property measurement system (PPMS) to study their crystalline phase, morphology and magnetic behavior. Addition of 7.7 mol% of soft-phase was found to be optimum, producing a coercivity (H _c) of 5.6 kOe and remanence (M _r) of 54 emu g^-1 in the nanocomposite.

SUBMITTER: Ngo HM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9041725 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature