Journal
MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING B-ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL SOLID-STATE MATERIALS
Volume 188, Issue -, Pages 13-19Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.mseb.2014.06.002
Keywords
Fe3O4 aerogels; Sol-gel method; Ferromagnetic behavior; Pore structure; Electromagnetic properties
Funding
- Pre-research Project Foundation of General Armament Department of China
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The Fe3O4 aerogels have been prepared by the sol-gel method and subsequent supercritical drying with CO2, FeCl3 center dot 6H(2)O, FeCl2 center dot 4H(2)O and propylene oxide was used as precursor and gelling accelerator, respectively. The result from XRD indicated that the aerogels were composed of nano-crystals. XPS was employed to further characterize the structure of products and confirmed the existence of Fe and O. SEM and TEM showed a fine microstructure of the as-prepared aerogels with three dimensional network, and the skeletons of aerogels were consist of interconnected nanoparticles. The Fe3O4 aerogels also possessed quite low density (0.249-0.393 m(2) g(-1)), large specific surface area (60.26-330.20 m(2) g(-1)) and superior saturation magnetization (14.64-52.28 emu g(-1)). Moreover, the textural and magnetic properties of the aerogels could be controlled by solution concentration, molar ratio of propylene oxide (PO) to Fe3+ and calcination temperature. The fabricated Fe3O4 aerogels exhibited certain electromagnetic properties in the frequency range of 2-18 GHz, and the maximum value of tan delta(e) and delta(m) is 0.07 and 0.27, respectively. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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