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A three-step chemical synthesis of SmCo5/Co nanocomposites was developed. Firstly, the Co–Sm(OH)3–Ca(OH)2 precursors were prepared by co-precipitation. Secondly, SmCo5 particles were obtained by reductive annealing of the precursors. At last, the SmCo5/Co nanocomposites were achieved by chemical deposition based on SmCo5 particles. The SmCo5/Co nanocomposites contain hard magnetic phase of SmCo5 with about 100 nm in size and soft magnetic phase of Co with about 8 nm in size, exhibiting independent two-phase structure without alloying. Compared to that of single-phase SmCo5 particles, the saturation magnetization of SmCo5/Co nanocomposites is increased by 27.5%. The synthesis provides a new route to fabricate SmCo-based nanocomposites. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

SmCo5 nanoparticles (NPs) have promising applications in high-density magnetic storage and magnetic nanocomposites. In this work, A novel method to yield SmCo5 particles with small size and high coercivity was reported. Firstly, Sm2O3-Co NPs with size of 6-15 nm were fabricated by a solvothermal route. Then the agglomerated SmCo5 particles were obtained by thermal reduction of the precursor, which show high coercivity of 2.0 T at room temperature. At last, the as-synthesized SmCo5 particles were further hydrogenated under high hydrogen pressure of 4 MPa at room temperature, where hydrogen absorption process could form small-sized SmCo5Hx particles due to their lattice expansion and hydrogen desorption process could convert SmCo5Hx NPs into SmCo5 NPs. The prepared SmCo5 NPs after hydrogenation, showing well distribution, have a small size of 5-20 nm and room temperature coercivity of 1.22 T. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]