A systematic study of the effect of the NaBH4 concentration upon the composites produced by chemical reduction of nano-sized goethite (_-FeOOH) particles suspended in water is presented. Amorphous Fe–B alloys with boron contents between 2 and 8 at.% have been produced. The obtained samples were characterized by X-ray diffraction, wet chemical analyses, thermal analyses, scanning electron microscopy, transmissio...