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JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY C
Volume 4, Issue 12, Pages 2302-2311Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c6tc00540c
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- Ministerio de Educacion, Cultura y Deporte (MECD) [FPU12/03381]
- MINECO, Spain [MAT2011-27573-C04]
- Asturias Government, Spain [FC-15-GRUPIN14-037]
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Co-based nanoparticles (NPs) have been extensively explored due to their prospective applications in areas as diverse as efficient water treatment (Co NPs), hydrogen generation (CoO NPs) and combustion catalysis (Co3O4 NPs). In recent years, the emergence of Co-based entities as bi-magnetic core/shell NPs has opened new avenues for their innovative use in fields ranging from energy storage and magnetic recording to biomedicine. The control and characterization of these nanomaterials thus becomes of paramount importance for targeting their foreseen applications. Here, we show that the intentional oxidation of metallic Co NPs with different sizes (3-50 nm) gives rise to a wide variety of core/shell morphologies including Co, CoO and Co3O4 phases. Bridging the information coming from high-resolution transmission electron microscopy, X-ray absorption spectroscopy and magnetic measurements gives us a self-consistent picture that describes the role played by the morphology and microstructure in the magnetism of Co and its oxides at the nanoscale.
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