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Synthesis of magnetic FeWO4 nanoparticles and their decoration of WS2 nanotubes surface

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Owing to their unique properties such as mechanical, optical, magnetic, nanomaterials attracted a great interest over the last two decades. Inorganic nanotubes, e.g. WS2, make an important class of nanomaterials with numerous potential applications. In the current work, a new synthetic strategy is developed to decorate the surface of WS2 nanotubes with FeWO4 nanoparticles. The FeWO4 nanoparticles were produced by first depositing amorphous iron oxide film onto the WS2 nanotubes’ surface and, subsequently, high-temperature annealing (600 °C). Careful analysis by electron microscopy; X-ray diffraction and other techniques were carried out. Based on these analyses, the growth mechanism of the hybrid nanostructures was elucidated. Magnetic measurements were employed to shed light on the magnetic behavior of the hybrid nanostructures. The orientation and position of the WS2 nanotubes decorated with the FeWO4 nanoparticles could be partially affected by applying a magnetic field using non-viscous solvents, like ethanol.

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Acknowledgement

We are grateful to Prof. Igor Lubomirsky (Weizmann Institute) for the help with the interpretation of the results. We are also grateful to Dr. Vlad Brumfeld for the assistance with the X-ray tomography analysis. This work was supported by the Israel National Nano-Initiative, the Israel Science Foundation (Grant 265/12), H. Perlman Foundation and the Irving and Azelle Waltcher Foundation in honor of Prof. M. Levy. The electron microscopy work was performed at the Irving and Cherna Moskowitz Center for Nano and BioNano Imaging (Weizmann Institute).

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  1. Shenkar College of Engineering and Design, 52526, Ramat Gan, Israel

    Anastasiya Sedova, Hanna Dodiuk & Shmuel Kenig

  2. Department of Materials and Interfaces, Weizmann Institute of Science, 76100, Rehovot, Israel

    Anastasiya Sedova, Sergey Khodorov & Reshef Tenne

  3. Department of Chemical Research Support, Weizmann Institute of Science, 76100, Rehovot, Israel

    Gregory Leitus, Yishay Feldman, Tatyana Bendikov & Ronit Popovitz-Biro

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Sedova, A., Leitus, G., Feldman, Y. et al. Synthesis of magnetic FeWO4 nanoparticles and their decoration of WS2 nanotubes surface. J Mater Sci 52, 6376–6387 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10853-017-0871-6

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