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Nanomaterials with high specific surface area and high absorption capacity are attracting increased interest aimed at imparting the desired magnetic properties. This work is devoted to the study of the effect of heat treatment in a hydrogen atmosphere on the microstructure, adsorption and magnetic properties of heterogeneous FePt/h-BN nanomaterials. Obtained via the polyol process, FePt nanoparticles (NPs) had a size < 2 nm and were uniformly distributed over the surface of hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) nanosheets. The temperature-activated fcc→fct phase transformation in ultrafine FePt NPs has been well documented. FePt NPs act as active centers dissociating H2 molecules and transfer adsorbed hydrogen atoms to the h-BN. Density functional theory (DFT) calculations also indicate that the h-BN substrate can absorb hydrogen adsorbed on the FePt NPs. This hydrogen circulation in the FePt/h-BN system promoted the fcc→fct phase transformation and allowed to control the magnetic properties. FePt/h-BN nanomaterials also exhibited a high adsorption capacity with respect to various organic dyes.

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Received: 13 May 2022
Revised: 10 June 2022
Accepted: 17 June 2022
Published: 23 July 2022
Issue date: January 2023

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© Tsinghua University Press 2022

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The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support from the Russian Science Foundation (No. 20-79-10286) in the part of materials synthesis, characterization and study of magnetic properties and the Strategic Academic Leadership Program “Priority 2030” at NUST (MISiS) (strategic project: “Biomedical materials and bioengineering”) in the part of water treatment. A. V. B. acknowledges CzechNanoLab Research Infrastructure supported by MEYS CR (No. LM2018110) in the part of in situ XPS analysis. Z. I. P. grateful to the Joint Supercomputer Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Information Technology Centre of Novosibirsk State University, and the Materials Modelling and Development Laboratory at NUST (MISIS) (supported via the grant from the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation) (No. 14.Y26.31.0005) for providing access to the cluster computational resources.

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