“…Nanocrystalline magnetic alloys such as Ni-Cu, Co-Ni, Fe-Co and Fe-Co-Cu are promising candidates for hyperthermia and microwave applications because their magnetic transition temperatures and microwave absorbance characteristics vary with composition and grain size. In addition to the polyol reduction, many methods such as hydrogen and hydrothermal reduction [10][11][12][13], mechanical alloying [14], sonochemical method [15], thermal decomposition [16,17], sol-gel process [18,19], co-evaporation [20], microemulsion method [21,22], sequential ion implantation [23], electroless deposition [24], biomineralization [25] and magnetic field-assisted solvothermal process [26] have been reported in the literature for the synthesis of Co-Ni alloy nanoparticles. In the following section, the literature on the synthesis of Co-Ni nanoparticles by polyol reduction is reviewed.…”