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Hexagonal close-packed 2D assembly of monodispersed FePt nanoparticles by the co-reduction method have been synthesised with particles size ~3 nm. The X-ray diffraction (XRD) studies reveal a structural transformation from a chemically disordered faced-centred cubic (FCC) phase to a chemically ordered face-centred tetragonal (FCT) phase with heat treatment. The percentage of phase transformation from FCC to FCT has also been investigated by the XRD profile fitting. Annealing at 750 °C gives 95 ± 1 % FCT phase. The structural transformation was further confirmed by the presence of two superlattice rings corresponding to (001) and (110) by the selected area electron diffraction. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) shows the grain growth with annealing temperature. High resolution TEM shows the presence of the carbonaceous layer over FePt after annealing. This carbonaceous layer has been investigated by the Raman spectroscopy. Magnetic measurement shows the presence of magnetic hard phase with coercivity of 1 Tesla. The soft/hard compositions have also been investigated by the hysteresis measurements.
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The work is supported by DST project SR/NM/NS-45/2007 under nanomission Department of Science and Technology, India. Authors would like to acknowledge the help extended by Mr. Manish Kumar, Mr. Rahul Bharadwaj, Mr. Rahul Chauhan and Mr. Harsh Kumar of the University Science Instrumentation Centre (USIC), University of Delhi. Authors would also like to thanks Dr. Alok Banerjee, CSR-DAE, Indore, for magnetic measurements. RM and NS would like to acknowledge CSIR, India, for giving financial support in the form of fellowship under the CSIR-SRF scheme.
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Medwal, R., Sehdev, N. & Annapoorni, S. Temperature-dependent magnetic and structural ordering of self-assembled magnetic array of FePt nanoparticles. J Nanopart Res 15, 1423 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11051-013-1423-x
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