Fine CoFe 2 O 4 powders with monodisperse, almost equi-axial nanometer-sized particles were synthesised in a polyol medium by forced hydrolysis of ionic Co(II) and Fe(III) salts at 160 ³C. K(Co) XANES and 57 Fe Mo È ssbauer spectroscopy show that the structure of this ferrite is slightly deviated from an inverse spinel structure: 16% of cobalt atoms are in tetrahedral sites. The particles are superparamagnetic above 300 K and ferrimagnetic below this blocking temperature with, at low temperature, strong coercivity, a saturation magnetisation value close to the bulk value and high reduced remanence. The saturation magnetisation measured at 5 K is clearly enhanced with respect to CoFe 2 O 4 nanometer-sized particles previously prepared by other methods. These magnetic characteristics suggest that these particles have a high crystallinity which may result from this novel synthesis route.{Basis of a presentation given at Materials Discussion No.
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