This review aims to give a comprehensive account of the strategies used to prepare mono metallic nanoparticles and multimetallic materials in liquid polyols and to exemplify the potential of this method.

We present the fabrication of metallic magnetic nanowires using a low temperature chemical process. We show that pressed powders and magnetically oriented samples exhibit a very high coercivity (6.5kOe at 140K and 4.8kOe at 300K). We discuss the magnetic properties of these metamaterials and show that they have the suitable properties to realize “high temperature magnets” competitive with AlNiCo or SmCo permanent magnets. They could also be used as recording media for high density magnetic recording.