Bayer Aktiengesellschaft

Volker Hahnkamm

Gunter Buxbaum

Peter Woditsch

Franz Hund

Ingo Pflugmacher

Lutz Leitner

Heinrich-Christian Schopper

In the preparation of highly orientatable needle-shaped ferrimagnetic iron oxide particles by the reduction and reoxidation of needle-shaped particles of hydrated oxide of iron which have been surface treated against sintering the improvement which comprises effecting the surface treatment by applying to the particles of hydrated oxide of iron one layer of oxygen-containing anions and a further layer of polyvalent cations, each layer weighing about 0.02 to 2% by weight of the particle. Advantageously, the polyvalent cation-containing layer is applied between two oxygen-containing anion layers, the oxygen-containing anions used are selected from the group consisting of silicate, phosphate, borate, vanadate, molybdate and tungstate, the polyvalent cations used are selected from the group consisting of aluminum, chromium, manganese, iron and gallium, each layer weighs about 0.1 to 1% of the weight of the particles and before the reduction and reoxidation the surface treated particles of hydrated oxide of iron are tempered at a temperature of about 600.degree. to 900.degree. C.

Coating iron oxide particles for magnetic recording

A cobalt-doped, acicular ferrimagnetic iron oxide having an FeO content of about 16 to 24%, by weight, and a cobalt content of about 0.7 to 2.4%, by weight, the coercive force amounting to at least about 425 Oe+175 Oe/%, by weight, of Co is produced by precipitating and oxidizing a cobalt-containing aqueous iron (ii) salt solution, reducing the precipitate to Fe.sub.3 O.sub.4, partially reoxidizing to adjust the FeO content and heat treating under inert conditions at a temperature from about 600.degree. to 800.degree. C.

Production of cobalt-doped ferrimagnetic iron oxides

An acicular, magnetic iron oxide pigment containing about 0.05 to 5% by weight of an organo silicon compound is produced by treating iron oxide hydroxide seeds either dry or in suspension with an organo silicon compound. Preferred organo silicon compounds comprise polymethylphenylsiloxane, polydimethylsiloxane and polydiphenylsiloxane. Trivalent metal ions may subsequently be deposited. The resulting pigments show only minimal losses of coercive force during processing into magnetic tapes.

Magnetic pigments with improved orientability and a process for their

An acicular, magnetic iron oxide pigment containing about 0.1 to 2 percent by weight of zinc and phosphate ions is produced by growing seeds and subsequently reducing and optionally reoxidizing acicular FeOOH. Said seeds were formed by precipitation from an iron (II) salt solution in the presence of about 0.1 to 4 percent by weight of zinc ions and about 0.1 to 2 percent by weight of phosphate ions based on the formed seeds.

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Krefeld, Germany

Volker Hahnkamm