<p>Considerable progress has been made in synthesizing two-dimensional (2D) materials by exfoliating layered solids. However, for tremendous non-layered inorganic materials, especially magnet solids, usually with closely packed bulk phases by strong chemical bonds, it is challenging to obtain their high-quality 2D sheets. Herein, we highlighted a new structure of free-standing ferromagnetic nanosheets featuring (111) facets. For magnet, Fe<sub>3</sub>O<sub>4</sub>, its inversed spinel crystalline has limited abilities to exfoliate into 2D forms and rarely exists as free-standing nanosheets owing to aggregation induced by magnetic force. We realized a breakthrough in achieving free-standing ferromagnetic nanosheets with dramatically surpassing size limitations via topotactic conversion from layered counterparts. Our Fe<sub>3</sub>O<sub>4</sub> nanosheets exhibited a maximum width of 60 µm while only ∼4 nm thick, prominently exposing (111) facets. 2D Fe<sub>3</sub>O<sub>4</sub> behaved anisotropic magnetism, which displayed a 4.6 emu g<sup>−1</sup> moment (<i>H</i>=500 Oe) in the (111) plane but 2.1 emu g<sup>−1</sup> out of the (111) plane, indicating a (111) in-plane easy axis. We anticipated our topotactic conversion strategy would inspire the creation of 2D non-layered materials and enrich the 2D materials family.</p>

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2D free-standing ultra-large ferromagnetic nanosheets via a topotactic transformation strategy

  • Haofeng Sun,
  • Minghao Wang,
  • Wenjie Li,
  • Yang Liu,
  • Xinyu Sun,
  • Wenjie Wang,
  • Yuqiao Guo,
  • Yi Xie,
  • Changzheng Wu

摘要

Considerable progress has been made in synthesizing two-dimensional (2D) materials by exfoliating layered solids. However, for tremendous non-layered inorganic materials, especially magnet solids, usually with closely packed bulk phases by strong chemical bonds, it is challenging to obtain their high-quality 2D sheets. Herein, we highlighted a new structure of free-standing ferromagnetic nanosheets featuring (111) facets. For magnet, Fe3O4, its inversed spinel crystalline has limited abilities to exfoliate into 2D forms and rarely exists as free-standing nanosheets owing to aggregation induced by magnetic force. We realized a breakthrough in achieving free-standing ferromagnetic nanosheets with dramatically surpassing size limitations via topotactic conversion from layered counterparts. Our Fe3O4 nanosheets exhibited a maximum width of 60 µm while only ∼4 nm thick, prominently exposing (111) facets. 2D Fe3O4 behaved anisotropic magnetism, which displayed a 4.6 emu g−1 moment (H=500 Oe) in the (111) plane but 2.1 emu g−1 out of the (111) plane, indicating a (111) in-plane easy axis. We anticipated our topotactic conversion strategy would inspire the creation of 2D non-layered materials and enrich the 2D materials family.