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JOURNAL OF ALLOYS AND COMPOUNDS
Volume 824, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.jallcom.2020.153925
Keywords
Nanoparticle; Cobalt hydroxide oxide; XRPD; XPS; NEXAFS; SQUID
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Nanocrystalline cobalt hydroxide oxide (nc-CoOOH) particles were synthesized via a precipitation-oxidation mechanism with different oxidation agents. Since the choice of the oxidative compound is of great practical importance, we compared the properties of the nc-CoOOH particles obtained from the oxidation with O-2 and Br-2. The particles from both synthesis routes were fully characterized with X-ray powder diffraction (XRPD), infrared spectroscopy (IR), superconducting quantum interface device (SQUID) measurements, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), and near-edge X-ray absorption fine structure (NEXAFS) measurements. It was found that the choice of the oxidation agent greatly affects the properties of the resulting nanoparticles; the most significant differences concern particle size and magnetic moment, due to residual Co2+. Although both, Br-2 and O-2, lead to the formation of nc-CoOOH, particles obtained from the synthesis involving O-2 show a three times larger particle size than their counterparts obtained from the synthesis using Br-2 (24 nm vs. 8 nm). Furthermore, using Br-2 during the synthesis leads to an 8-fold increase of the amount of residual Co2+ impurities, which, in fact, induce a magnetic moment. A possible enrichment of those Co2+ impurities on the surface of the nanoparticles is discussed based on XPS and NEXAFS data. (C) 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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