Abstract
Amorphous Fe nanoparticles are always difficult to prepare by physical gas-phase methods though rapid cooling rates are applied. Here we report a physical preparation of pure amorphous Fe nanoparticles by laser ablation of a 0.5-mm-diameter Fe wire and the investigation of their formation mechanism. Amorphous Fe nanoparticles with a shell of γ-Fe 2O 3 and the sizes of 1–3 nm are obtained at the laser power densities above the ablation threshold. Finally, the as-prepared nanoparticles are characterized by XRD, TEM, XPS and VSM to discover the structure, morphology, surface composition, crystallization and magnetic property in detail. We find that the holistic explosive evaporation induced by the small-size target not by the processing parameters determines the nature of the amorphous Fe nanoparticles. The as-prepared amorphous Fe nanoparticles are crystallized at 400 °C with an increase of particle size to about 10 nm.
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