Journal
SOLID STATE SCIENCES
Volume 109, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.solidstatesciences.2020.106438
Keywords
ZnO; pH; Nanoparticles; Magnetic properties; Dislocation density
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In the present work, the influence of pH on the microstructure and magnetic properties of pure and doped ZnO nanoparticles with Fe is reported. Specifically, we synthesize nanoparticles using the sol gel method with pH = 3, 6 and 9. For pure ZnO it is verified that the lattice constants, crystallite size, lattice strain, dislocation density (delta) and crystallinity are affected with increasing the pH value. This result is decisive in the magnetic properties of the nanoparticles because the structural defects are responsible for an additional paramagnetism in addition to the typical diamagnetism of the pure material. For samples doped with 2% of Fe, was observed that there are also modifications in the microstructure as the pH increases and the value of the saturation moment per unit mass changes by 15%. That is attributed to the effect of pH on the structure of Fe-doped ZnO nanoparticles. This work contributes to the understanding the effects of pH on the magnetic properties of pure and doped ZnO nano particles with transition metals.
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