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JOURNAL OF NANOPARTICLE RESEARCH
Volume 16, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11051-014-2322-5
Keywords
Hematite; Ferrihydrite; High coercivity; Carbonate; Microstructure
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- Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitivity [MICINN-12-MAT2011-27573-C04-02]
- Marie Curie EU-FP6 MINGRO Research and Training Network [MRTNCT-2006-035488]
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/E059678/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- EPSRC [EP/E059678/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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We report the physical properties of alpha-Fe2O3 (hematite), synthesized by dry-heating (350-1,000 degrees C) of a new, poorly ordered iron oxyhydroxide precursor compound that we name carbonated 2-line ferrihydrite. This precursor was characterized by powder X-ray diffraction, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, electron microscopy, and thermogravimetric analysis, whereas the alpha-Fe2O3 was studied with X-ray diffraction, scanning and transmission electron microscopy, and magnetic techniques. alpha-Fe2O3 synthesized at 350 degrees C consisted of single-nanocrystal particles (length 9 width 20 +/- 6 nm (L) x 15 +/- 4 nm (W)), which at room temperature exhibited very narrow hysteresis loops of low coercivities (<300 Oe). However, alpha-Fe2O3 synthesized at higher temperatures (1,000 degrees C) was composed of larger nanocrystalline particle aggregates (352 +/- 109 nm (L) x 277 +/- 103 nm (W)) that also showed wide-open hysteresis loops of high magnetic coercivities (similar to 5 kOe). We suggest that these synthesis-temperature-dependent coercivity values are a consequence of the subparticle structure induced by the different particle and crystallite size growth rates at increasing annealing temperature.
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