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Nanopages
Authors:
S. Talapatra
,
T. Kim
,
B. Q. Wei
,
S. Kar
,
R. Vajtai
,
G. V. S. Sastry
,
M. Shima
,
D. Srivastava
, and
P. M. Ajayan
We report on the room temperature ferromagnetism observed in heat treated nanocrystalline diamonds. By systematic annealing of nanocrystalline diamond, graphitic nanoclusters having finite magnetization with well-defined hysteresis and coercivity, and a Curie temperature (TC) well above 400 K (estimated TC ~ 590 K), were synthesized. Using detailed analysis of the structural modification at various annealing stages, with Raman Spectroscopy and High Resolution Transmission Electron Microscopy, we show that the carbon bonding configuration has important consequence to the observed magnetism in these samples. These findings could lead to controlled fabrication of metal free magnetic carbon system.
