%0 Conference Paper %A Khe, C.S. %A Aziz, A. %A Lockman, Z. %A Rajalingam, S. %A Merican, Z. %A Vasant, P. %D 2016 %F scholars:6622 %I American Institute of Physics Inc. %R 10.1063/1.4968103 %T Formation of raspberry like cobalt particles with hydrazine reduction in a polyol route %U https://khub.utp.edu.my/scholars/6622/ %V 1787 %X This work describes the effect of hydrazine hydrate on the formation of the raspberry-like morphology of the cobalt nanomaterials in a polyol route. In the synthesis, the molar ratio of N2H4 to Co2+was varied from 2.5 to 10. At the beginning with low molar ratio, spherical microspheres were formed. When the molar ratio was increased to 5 and above, final morphology of the cobalt nanomaterials became raspberry-like. This might be attributed to the absorption of the hydrazine complex of cobalt nanoparticles at certain facets during their growth stage and later self-assembled into the raspberry shaped microparticles. The plausible formation mechanism were proposed. © 2016 Author(s). %Z cited By 0; Conference of 4th International Conference on Fundamental and Applied Sciences, ICFAS 2016 ; Conference Date: 15 August 2016 Through 17 August 2016; Conference Code:125141