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Title: Fabrication of two-dimensional Au at FePt core-shell nanoparticle arrays by photochemical metal deposition

Journal Article · · Applied Physics Letters
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3425670· OSTI ID:21347422
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  1. Institut fuer Angewandte Photophysik, Technische Universitaet Dresden, 01062 Dresden (Germany)
  2. Institut fuer Festkoerperphysik, Universitaet Ulm, 89069 Ulm (Germany)
  3. Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), Via Morego 30, I-16163 Genova (Italy)
  4. Physikalische Chemie und Elektrochemie, Technische Universitaet Dresden, 01062 Dresden (Germany)

In this report, we experimentally demonstrate that single platinum nanoparticles exhibit the necessary catalytic activity for the optically induced reduction of H[AuCl{sub 4}] complexes to elemental gold. This finding is exploited for the parallel Au encapsulation of FePt nanoparticles arranged in a self-assembled two-dimensional array. Magnetic force microscopy reveals that the thin gold layer formed on the FePt particles leads to a strongly increased long-term stability of their magnetization under ambient conditions.

OSTI ID:
21347422
Journal Information:
Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 96, Issue 18; Other Information: DOI: 10.1063/1.3425670; (c) 2010 American Institute of Physics; ISSN 0003-6951
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English