Journal of Ultrafine Grained and Nanostructured Materials

Journal of Ultrafine Grained and Nanostructured Materials

Salt-assisted combustion synthesis of cobalt ferrite nanoparticles; magnetic properties and cation distribution measurement by XRD analysis

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors
Saba Fayazzadeh
Mehdi Khodaei
Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering, K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran.
10.22059/JUFGNSM.2019.01.07
Abstract
Current study represents the effect of the size and synthesis method on the cation distribution of cobalt ferrite nanoparticles and on the magnetic properties. The nanoferrites have been synthesized through sol-gel auto-combustion method using metal nitrates as precursor and citrate as fuel. In order to obtain the fine and agglomerated-free particles, we have used salt-assisted combustion reaction method. Magnetic properties of the synthesized single phase cobalt ferrite nanoparticles are carried out using vibrating sample magnetometer (VSM) at room temperature. It has been observed that the coercivity and saturation magnetization of the samples reduced by adding salt. The transmission electron microscopy (TEM) confirms the finer nanoparticles formation from around 70-200 nm to 10-40 nm. Structural characterization is done by X-ray diffraction (XRD) and it confirms the spinel structure formation for the samples. The crystallite size and induced strain were derived from the XRD patterns by Williamson-Hall (W-H) method. The magnetic parameters were reduced by crystallite size reduction from 38.5 nm to 11 nm. The further analysis of XRD peaks is fulfilled using Rietveld refinement in order to explain the magnetic properties. The obtained Rietveld refined data allow us to measure the distribution of cations within the available octahedral and tetrahedral sites.
Keywords
Sol-gel auto-combustion
Magnetic properties
Cobalt ferrite
W-H analysis
Cation distribution
Rietveld refining
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Journal of Ultrafine Grained and Nanostructured Materials
Volume 52, Issue 1
June 2019
Pages 69-77

  • Receive Date 26 February 2019
  • Revise Date 08 April 2019
  • Accept Date 23 April 2019