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CRYSTENGCOMM
Volume 14, Issue 11, Pages 4074-4080Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c2ce06683a
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21003147]
- Natural Science Foundation of Shanxi [2011011007-3]
- Institute of Coal Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences [2011SJCRC07]
- State Key Laboratory of Coal Conversion (SKLCC) [2011BWZ005]
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In the present work, a significant advance has been made in precisely tailoring dendritic alpha-Fe2O3 structures along [10 (1) over bar0] and/or its equivalent directions. We proposed that the benzoate anions adsorb on (10 (1) over bar0) and/or its equivalent facets, leading to the slow growth of these facets. By carefully controlling the experimental conditions, the dendritic structures can be gradually tailored to nanorods and finally to dodecahedral alpha-Fe2O3 nanoparticles with twelve exposed (01 (1) over bar2) planes. Interestingly, with the process proceeding, the coercivity (Hc) of these particles decreases successively due to the reduction in magnetic anisotropy by lessening intensity of hierarchical hyperbranched structure. The tailoring process gives us an in-depth understanding of the formation mechanism of dendritic alpha-Fe2O3 structures, which is not possibly achieved by the traditional time-dependent method.
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