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Werner Loeser

Werner Steck

Manfred Ohlinger

Peter Rudolf

Eberhard Koester

Helmut Jakusch

Wilhelm Sarnecki

Jenoe Kovacs

Gerd Wunsch

Paul Deigner

Christof Jaeckh

Guenter Vaeth

Friedrich Domas

Horst Autzen

Rudolf Brodt

Laszlo Marosi

Werner Grau

Rainer Feser

Roland Falk

Franz-Josef Mueller

Hans Henning Schneehage

Eckhard Hetzel

Joachim Stabenow

Peter Felleisen

Werner Huebner

Manfred Steuerwald

Werner Senkpiel

Karl Mahler

Hans-Juergen Becker

Hans H Reich

Gerd Maurer

Rainer Bender

Axel-Ruediger Schulze

Kurt Doerr

Hansjoerg Siegle

Juergen Richter

Disk-shaped nickel-plated aluminum substrates which are used as bases in the production of magnetic recording disks having a magnetizable metallic layer are surface treated by polishing and texturing.

Surface treatment of disk-shaped nickel-plated aluminum substrates

The preparation of acicular ferrimagnetic iron oxides which contain cobalt and phosphate ions and, if desired, further additives, and their use for manufacturing magnetic recording media.

Preparation of acicular cobalt-containing ferrimagnetic iron oxides

Acicular ferrimagnetic iron oxides are prepared by a process in which iron (III) oxide hydroxide consisting essentially of lepidocrocite is reduced at from 350.degree. to 600.degree. C. by means of an organic compound which is a synthetic polymer with a molecular weight of from 3,000 to 40,000 to give magnetite, which, if desired, is subsequently partially or completely oxidized with an oxygen-containing gas at from 200.degree. to 450.degree. C.

Preparation of acicular, ferrimagnetic iron oxides

Acicular ferromagnetic metal particles consisting essentially of iron are prepared by a process wherein acicular iron(III) oxide hydroxide provided with a shape-stabilizing surface coating, or iron(III) oxide obtained therefrom by dehydration, is reduced by means of a decomposable organic compound and hydrogen.

Preparation of acicular ferromagnetic metal particles consisting

A process for stabilizing pyrophoric acicular metal particles consisting essentially of iron, by reaction with oxygen-containing gases in two stages, wherein, in the first stage, up to 1/3 of the passivating layer present in the final state is formed at from 25.degree. to 45.degree. C. and, in a subsequent second stage, the remainder of the passivating layer is formed at from 50.degree. to 70.degree. C.

Stabilization of pyrophoric ferromagnetic acicular metal particles

A process for the preparation of acicular ferromagnetic metal particles, consisting essentially of iron, by reducing acicular iron oxides and/or iron oxide hydroxides, which are either pure or are modified with conventional foreign metal ions, by means of a gaseous reducing agent in a fluidized bed furnace in which a stirrer is provided immediately above the fluidizing grid.

A process for the manufacture of acicular ferromagnetic iron particles by heating a goethite, provided with a shape-stabilizing surface coating, at 250.degree.-450.degree. C. in an atmosphere containing water vapor at a partial pressure of not less than 30 mbar, to give alpha-iron(III) oxide, and reducing this material with hydrogen at 275.degree.-425.degree. C., and the use of the iron particles thus obtained as magnetic material in the production of magnetic recording media.

Manufacture of acicular ferromagnetic iron particles

A process for the manufacture of wear-resistant magnetic recording media comprising a dimensionally stable base, a thin ferromagnetic metal layer, containing cobalt and/or nickel, firmly bonded thereto and a thin protective layer applied thereon. The protective layer is produced by treating the recording medium in a liquid basic medium, containing gaseous oxygen, for from 1 to 60 minutes at from 5.degree. to 70.degree. C., washing and drying the treated recording medium and then heating it in air at from 170.degree. to 300.degree. C. This method offers a particularly simple way of providing the ferromagnetic layer of the recording medium with a thin but uniform, mechanically stable and wear-resistant protective layer.

Manufacture of magnetic recording media having a wear-resistant surface

A process for the manufacture of acicular ferrimagnetic iron oxide by reducing heat-treated acicular iron(III) oxide hydroxide with an organic compound which decomposes in the presence of iron oxide at from 450.degree. to 650.degree. C., followed by at least partial oxidation with an oxygen-containing gas at from 200.degree. to 500.degree. C., wherein the iron(III) oxide hydroxide employed is heat-treated at from 450.degree. to 700.degree. C. and has a surface area, measured by the BET method, of from 10 to 23 m.sup.2 /g.

Manufacture of acicular ferrimagnetic iron oxides

A process for the manufacture of acicular ferrimagnetic iron oxide by dehydrating acicular iron(III) oxide hydroxides to give acicular iron(III) oxides, then reducing these iron(III) oxides at from 300.degree. to 650.degree. C. by means of an organic compound which decomposes in this temperature range, and oxidizing the reduced product with an oxygen-containing gas at from 200.degree. to 500.degree. C., wherein the acicular iron(III) oxide hydroxides employed consist of a mixture of goethite and lepidocrocite, containing at least 60% of the latter, and the dehydration is carried out at from 250.degree. to 700.degree. C.

Manufacture of acicular, ferrimagnetic iron oxide

A process for the manufacture of an acicular magnetic iron oxide containing from 0.5 to 10 percent by weight of cobalt and up to 24 percent by weight of divalent iron, each based on the amount of iron(III) oxide, wherein an aqueous suspension of gamma-iron(III) oxide, containing cobalt(II) and iron(II) ions, the suspension having a hydroxyl ion concentration of more than 3.6.times.10.sup.-6 moles/liter, is heated at from 50.degree. to 100.degree. C. for at least 15 minutes, and the resulting precipitate is filtered off, washed until neutral, dried at below 100.degree. C. and thereafter heated at from 100.degree. to 200.degree. C. The products thus obtained give, even when their cobalt content is low, a very high coercive force, while the effect of temperature on the coercive force and residual induction is very slight.

Manufacture of acicular cobalt-modified magnetic iron oxide

A process for the manufacture of acicular ferromagnetic metal particles which essentially consist of iron and carry, on their surface, from 0.02 to 0.6% by weight of boron in the form of a borate, by reducing an acicular iron oxide with a gaseous reducing agent at from 250.degree. to 500.degree. C., wherein a compound selected from the group comprising boron oxyacids and their inorganic salts is precipitated on the said iron oxide before reduction.

Manufacture of ferromagnetic metal particles essentially consisting of

A method of preparing acicular ferromagnetic metal particles consisting essentially of iron and suitable for magnetic recording, said particles being modified at the surface with 0.02 to 0.2% by weight of carbon and with 0.5 to 1.9% by weight of phosphorus as phosphate, by reducing a finely divided acicular iron compound, wherein there are deposited on said iron compound, prior to reduction, (a) a hydrolysis-resistant substance selected from the group consisting of oxyacids of phosphorus, their esters and inorganic salts, and (b) a compound selected from the group consisting of aliphatic monobasic, dibasic and tribasic carboxylic acids of from 1 to 6 carbon atoms.

Manufacture of ferromagnetic metal particles consisting essentially of

A process for the manufacture of rigid magnetic recording media by depositing a cobalt-containing ferromagnetic metal layer on a non-magnetic metallic base disc provided with a cured layer of binder which does not dissolve or swell in organic solvents and contains non-magnetic pigments, and which has been activated, before deposition of the ferromagnetic layer, by treatment with a solution of a palladium (O) complex in an organic solvent, followed by decomposition of this complex, to prepare it to receive the ferromagnetic metal layer which is produced by electroless deposition.

Process of making a magnetic recording medium

A process for metallizing substrates by activation of the substrate by deposition of palladium from a palladium complex, followed by electroless metallization. The palladium is deposited on the substrate by dipping the substrate into a solution of a palladium(O) complex and decomposing this complex at from 100.degree. to 300.degree. C. With this method it is possible to effectively activate substrates which are attacked by acid or alkali or swollen by organic solvents.

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