Issue 13, 2023

Fabrication of doped ferrites and exploration of their structure and magnetic behavior

Abstract

Manganese-doped MnxFe3−xO4 (x = 0.0, 0.2, 0.6, 0.8) spinel ferrites were produced via co-precipitation using the ethanolamine. XRD results confirmed the formation of the spinel phase. The well-crystallized particles of the ferrite spinel phase had linear sizes in the range of 5–9 nm. It was found that the lattice parameter increases gradually as the Mn concentration is increased. XPS data supported the presence of Mn3+ and Mn4+ in the nanosized crystallites. A large specific surface area of 124–143 m2 g−1 was calculated using HRTEM and BET. The spontaneous magnetization increases monotonically from ∼51 emu g−1 for x = 0.0 up to ∼106 emu g−1 for x = 0.8. By contrast, the remanent magnetization changed non-monotonically from ∼3 emu g−1 for x = 0.0 up to ∼11 emu g−1 for x = 0.8, with a local maximum of ∼7 emu g−1 for x = 0.2 and a local minimum of ∼3 emu g−1 for x = 0.6. The coercivity also changed non-monotonically from ∼4 Oe for x = 0.0 up to ∼9 Oe for x = 0.8, with a minimum of ∼1 Oe for x = 0.2. The ordered magnetic moments for each sub-lattice were computed. The large values of the specific surface area indicate that the samples are good candidates for chemical and biological applications. The FT-IR and Raman spectra obtained supported the Rietveld refinement of XRD without forming any impurity phases. With an increase in the Mn concentration, magnetic investigations indicated an enhancement in the magnetic parameters of the obtained nanostructured samples.

Graphical abstract: Fabrication of doped ferrites and exploration of their structure and magnetic behavior

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
04 Mar 2023
Accepted
10 May 2023
First published
12 Jun 2023
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY license

Mater. Adv., 2023,4, 2794-2810

Fabrication of doped ferrites and exploration of their structure and magnetic behavior

R. E. El-Shater, H. El Shimy, S. A. Saafan, M. A. Darwish, D. Zhou, K. C. B. Naidu, M. U. Khandaker, Z. Mahmoud, A. V. Trukhanov, S. V. Trukhanov and F. Fakhry, Mater. Adv., 2023, 4, 2794 DOI: 10.1039/D3MA00105A

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