Abstract
Carbon nano-onions are approximately spherical nanoscale graphitic shells. When filled with ferromagnetic Fe3C/α-Fe nanocrystals, these structures have several important applications, such as point electron-sources, magnetic data recording, energy storage, and others, that exploit the interaction of either or both the shells and the magnetic moments in the filling. Despite these applications receiving much recent attention, little is known about the structural relationship between the carbon shells and the internal nanocrystal. In this work, the graphitic c-axis lattice-spacing in Fe3C/α-Fe-filled multi-shell structures was determined by XRD in the temperature range from 130 K to 298 K. A significant reduction in the c-axis lattice-spacing was observed in the multi-shell structures. A defect-induced magnetic transition was probed and ascribed to the formation of randomly oriented ferromagnetic clusters in the recrystallized disclination-rich regions of the CNOs-shells, in agreement with the percolative theory of ferromagnetism.
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