Journal
NANOSCALE
Volume 4, Issue 17, Pages 5469-5476Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c2nr30799e
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- Serbian Ministry of Education and Science [ON171032, III45018]
- SASA project [F-134]
- Swiss National Science Foundation [IZ73Z0-128169]
- Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation [AIB2010SE-00160]
- Sectorial Operational Programme Human Resource Development (SOPHRD) [POSDRU/89/1.5/S/63700]
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Ce1-xPrxO2-delta (0 <= x <= 0.4) nanocrystals were synthesized by self-propagating method and thoroughly characterized using X-ray diffraction, Raman and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and magnetic measurements. Undoped CeO2 nanocrystals exhibited intrinsic ferromagnetism at room temperature. Despite the increased concentration of oxygen vacancies in doped samples, our results showed that ferromagnetic ordering rapidly degrades with Pr doping. The suppression of ferromagnetism can be explained in terms of the different dopant valence state, the different nature of the vacancies formed in Pr-doped samples and their ability/disability to establish the ferromagnetic ordering.
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