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Magnetic properties of binary and ternary mixed metal oxides NiFe2O4 and Zn0.5Ni0.5Fe2O4 doped with rare earths by sol—gel synthesis

  • Martin Tsvetkov , Maria Milanova EMAIL logo , Laura C. J. Pereira EMAIL logo , João C. Waerenborgh , Zara Cherkezova-Zheleva , Joana Zaharieva and Ivan Mitov
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From the journal Chemical Papers Volume 70 Issue 12

Abstract

The spinel-type ferrites NiFe2O4 and Zn0.5Ni0.5Fe2O4 modified by lanthanide ions Eu3+ and Tb3+ were prepared by a sol-gel process with propylene oxide as a gelating agent. The phase homogeneity of the samples was tested by XRD and Mössbauer spectroscopy. Transmission electronic microscopy used for characterisation of the morphology of the samples revealed nanosized powdered samples with a narrow distribution of particle sizes. It was noted that the presence of Ln3+ ions influenced the magnetic properties of nanosized NiFe2O4 and Ni0.5Zn0.5Fe2O4 ferrites. The dependence of the magnetic properties of the samples on the rare-earth doping may be explained by the different grain sizes. The saturation magnetisation tends to decrease with increasing rare-earth doping and decreasing crystallite size. A similar trend was observed for the coercive field, with the exception of the Tb3+ -doped Zn0.5Ni0.5Fe2O4 where it remained the same as in the pure ferrite.

Key words: ferrites; lanthanides; Mossbauer spectroscopy; XRD; magnetic properties

Acknowledgements

The financial support received from the Bulgarian Fund for Scientific Investigations (project DFNI E01/7/2012) is gratefully acknowledged. The C2TN/IST authors gratefully acknowledge the FCT (Portugal) support through the UID/Multi/04349/2013 project.

Supplementary data

Supplementary data associated with this article can be found in the online version of this paper (DOI: 10.1515/chempap-2016-0097).

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Received: 2016-2-4
Revised: 2016-4-18
Accepted: 2016-4-25
Published Online: 2016-9-28
Published in Print: 2016-12-1

© 2016 Institute of Chemistry, Slovak Academy of Sciences

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https://doi.org/10.1515/chempap-2016-0097
Keywords for this article
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