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NANOMATERIALS
Volume 12, Issue 23, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/nano12234121
Keywords
Fe3O4 and Fe3O4@Au nanoparticles; core-shell structures; Mossbauer spectroscopy; phase transformations; hyperfine interactions
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- Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan
- [AP09259184]
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This paper presents the results of a study on the phase transformation and structural characteristics of iron oxide nanoparticles synthesized by chemical coprecipitation under thermal annealing. The study found that thermal annealing leads to the transformation of nanoparticles from nonstoichiometric magnetite to hematite, and the structure of nanoparticles becomes ordered and coarsened.
The paper presents the results of a study of iron oxide nanoparticles obtained by chemical coprecipitation, coated (Fe3O4@Au) and not coated (Fe3O4) with gold, which were subjected to thermal annealing. To characterize the nanoparticles under study, scanning and transmission electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction, and Mossbauer spectroscopy on Fe-57 nuclei were used, the combination of which made it possible to establish a sequence of phase transformations, changes in morphological and structural characteristics, as well as parameters of hyperfine interactions. During the studies, it was found that thermal annealing of nanoparticles leads to phase transformation processes in the following sequence: nonstoichiometric magnetite (Fe3-gamma O4) -> maghemite (gamma-Fe2O3) -> hematite (alpha-Fe2O3), followed by structural ordering and coarsening of nanoparticles. It is shown that nanoparticles of nonstoichiometric magnetite with and without gold coating are in the superparamagnetic state with a slow relaxation rate. The magnetic anisotropy energy of nonstoichiometric magnetite is determined as a function of the annealing temperature. An estimate was made of the average size of the region of magnetic ordering of Fe atoms in nonstoichiometric magnetite, which is in good agreement with the data on the average sizes of nanoparticles determined by scanning electron microscopy.
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