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Effect of laser irradiation on iron carbide nanoparticles produced by laser ablation in ethanol

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Laser ablation in liquid is a useful mean of producing nanoparticles, based on both laser ablation (LA) and laser irradiation (LI) effects. In order to investigate the mechanism by which iron carbide nanoparticles are generated in ethanol, iron carbide nanoparticles were produced by LA of an iron block in a flowing ethanol solvent, which enabled separation and collection of the nanoparticles immediately following the process. These same particles were subsequently subjected to LI while suspended in stagnant ethanol. Both the LA and LA/LI nanoparticles were assessed using Mössbauer spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction and transmission electron microscopy. LA in flowing ethanol was found to produce nanoparticles composed of cementite (Fe3C) and other metastable iron carbides with an average size of 16 nm, dispersed in amorphous carbon. LI of the LA nanoparticles suspended in ethanol increased the particle size to 38 nm and changed the composition to pure Fe3C.

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This work was supported by a JSPS KAKENHI grant, number JP16K05733.

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  1. Department of Chemistry, Tokyo University of Science, 1-3 Kagurazaka, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 162-8602, Japan

    S. Amagasa, N. Nishida & Y. Yamada

  2. Graduate School of Informatics and Engineering, The University of Electro-Communications, 1-5-1 Chofugaoka, Chofu, Tokyo, 182-8585, Japan

    Y. Kobayashi

  3. Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science, RIKEN, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama, 351-0198, Japan

    Y. Kobayashi

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This article is part of the Topical Collection on Proceedings of the International Conference on the Applications of the Mössbauer Effect (ICAME 2017), Saint-Petersburg, Russia, 3–8 September 2017

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Amagasa, S., Nishida, N., Kobayashi, Y. et al. Effect of laser irradiation on iron carbide nanoparticles produced by laser ablation in ethanol. Hyperfine Interact 238, 83 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10751-017-1454-2

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