4.8 Article

Optical and magnetic properties of small-size core-shell Fe3O4@C nanoparticles

Journal

MATERIALS TODAY CHEMISTRY
Volume 22, Issue -, Pages -

Publisher

ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.mtchem.2021.100556

Keywords

Carbon coated iron oxide; Core-shell structure; Optical properties; Superparamagnetism

Funding

  1. Doctoral fund of Southwest Uni-versity of Science and Technology - Open Fund of The Key Laboratory for Metallurgical Equipment and Control Technology of Ministry of Education in Wuhan University of Science and Technology [17zx7114, MECOF2020B02]
  2. Scientific Research Fund of Si Chuan Provincial Science and Technology Department [2020YJ0137, 2020YFG0467, 2021JDRC0019]

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This study investigated the effects of carbon shell coating on the optical and magnetic properties of small size Fe3O4 nanoparticles. The results showed that carbon coating can enhance the absorption intensity in the UV-visible light region and reduce surface uniaxial anisotropy, leading to a decrease in the average blocking temperature.
Core-shell Fe3O4@C magnetic nanoparticles which are of great interest for research have a widely applied prospect. However, people know little about the optical and magnetic properties of the small-size Fe3O4@C nanoparticles due to the difficulty of uniformly coating small size Fe3O4 nanoparticles. In this paper, the influence of carbon shell coating on the optical and magnetic properties of small size Fe3O4 nanoparticles was presented. Carbon coating can strengthen the absorption intensity in the UV-visible light region through the introduction of oxygen defects on the surface of the nanoparticles by nitric acid treatment. Fe3O4 and Fe3O4@C nanoparticles both display typical superparamagnetic behavior in the high-temperature regime and a blocked state at low temperature from hysteresis loop, zero-field cooled and field cooled curves. Carbon coating reduce the surface uniaxial anisotropy, thus the average blocking temperature decreases from 59 K of Fe3O4 nanoparticles to 50 K of Fe3O4@C nanoparticles. (C) 2021 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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