Single-phase SrM ultrafine powders with single-domain particle ranging from 200 to 400 nm in size were successfully synthesized by a cetyltrimethylammonium bromide（CTAB）-as sis ted co-precipitation method,and excellent magnetic properties with saturation magnetization of 68.6 A·m^2·kg^（-1） and coercive field of 0.5250 T are obtained.As CTAB content exceeds 5.0 wt%,the impurities emerge due to the deterioration of simultaneous precipitations of the starting materials and the deviation of Sr/Fe molar ratio from stoichiometry ratio in the local microdomains by employing CTAB in co-precipitation process.Also,the use of CTAB can effectively improve the homogeneities of Fe-precursor particles with Sr-precursor particles,exert surface barriers to inhibit interdiffusion,and constrain the crystal growth in the local microdomains during sintering,resulting in smaller particle sizes and more uniform particle size distribution.
La-doped Sr-hexaferrite（Sr（1-x）LaxFe（12）O（19））（x=0.05,0.10,0.15,0.20） nanopowders with particle size ranging from 80 to 110 nm were successfully synthesized by sol-gel auto-combustion. The phase formation temperature increases, while the particle size decreases as the Ladoping content goes up. The partial substitution of Sr^（2＋） by La^（3＋） results in the suppression effects on the growth-up of the crystallites and the enhancement of the electron hopping between Fe^（3＋） with different valences, which leads to the improvement in the dielectric loss and magnetic loss.Therefore, both the microwave absorbing abilities and absorbing frequency ranges are tuned by La-doping. The synthesized Sr-hexaferrite nanopowders with doping element content of 0.10 demonstrate the fine broad microwave absorbing properties.
Novel mono-dispersed hollow polyhedral ceria nano powders with the average particle size of 250 nm were directly synthesized via a simple template-free mixed solvothermal method by using water-ethanol as the solvent. The formation of such hollow structure with the regular polyhedral particle shape was based on a solvent-controlled Ostwald ripening coupled self-templating process. The mixed solvent promoted the formation of the regular solid particles at the beginning of solvothermal reaction and drove the Ostwald ripening as the reaction went on. Owing to the Ostwald ripening and self-assembly of nano crystallites, ceria nano particles converted into the hollow structures with regular polyhedral shape during the solvothermal process just by increasing solvothermal reaction time. The as-synthesized hollow ceria nano powders exhibited strong absorptions in the UV-vis spectrum and the evaluated energy band gaps increased according to the shape evolution and size decrease of the nano particles, which demonstrated obvious blue shift effects.
