Journal
APPLIED SURFACE SCIENCE
Volume 457, Issue -, Pages 427-438Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.apsusc.2018.06.224
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Iron oxide; Hematite (alpha-Fe2O3); Hydrothermal synthesis; Image analysis; Surface effects; Magnetic properties
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- Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Serbia [III 45015, III 45005]
- Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology of the Republic of Slovenia
- Serbian-Slovenian bilateral project [BI-RS/16-17-030]
- Serbian-Slovakian bilateral project [SK-SRB 2016-0055]
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We report on glycine-free and glycine-assisted hydrothermal synthesis of microsized superstructures composed of self-assembled hematite nanoparticles. An X-ray powder diffraction measurements of the samples confirm good crystallization of the hematite nanoparticles with hydrothermal reaction time-dependent crystallite sizes in a range from similar to 15 nm (45 h) to similar to 26 nm (90 h). The FTIR and Raman spectroscopy confirm hematite structure, whereas TEM measurements reveal nanoparticle sub-units (subparticles). The computational analyses of particle shape show that the addition of glycine surfactant in hydrothermal reaction leads to more spherical shape of hematite hierarchical structures and smaller sizes. We found strong coercivity increases (up to similar to 3 times) in the samples synthesized in the presence of glycine. The coercivity values from H-c = 1305 Oe (mushroom-like shape synthesized by glycine-free hydrothermal reaction) to H-c = 3725 Oe (sphere-like shape synthesized by glycineassisted hydrothermal reaction) were obtained at 300 K. These results and their comparison with other described in the literature (e.g. bulk, wires, urchin-like, rods, tubes, plates, star-like, dendrites, platelets, irregular, nanocolumns, spindles, disks hematites, etc.) reveal that the hematite superstructures possess good magnetic properties. We propose that the glycine, oriented subparticles, exchange and dipole-dipole interactions may play an important role in the development of magnetic properties.
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