Abstract
ABSTRACTMagnet-attractive carbon nanopowder can be produced by a pulsed Nd:YAG laser (10 Hz) vaporization of pure carbon in a few % of H2 containing Ar gas at 1000°C. On the other hand, magnet-attractive nanopowder cannot be formed when vaporizing in pure Ar. As-grown carbon nanopowder includes a few to ten % of micron sized graphite flakes as the impurity. Removal of such flakes can be achieved by a centrifugal separation and the supernatant is checked by X-ray diffractometry (XRD) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). Magnetization curve at 400 K is easy to saturate at low magnetic field of 10 kG, and no hysteresis is observed. This feature is explained by a superparamagnetism of finely dispersed ferro- or ferri-magnetic nanoparticles. Elementary analyses using electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS) and atomic absorption spectroscopy (AAS) suggest that the observed strong magnetism should be an intrinsic carbon magnetism.
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