Monitoring the magnetic properties of Cu2+ ion substituted tin ferrite synthesized from secondary resources

Sn1-xCuxFe2O4 nanoparticles ( 0 >= x <= 0.3) were successfully fabricated via a co- precipitation route at low temperature 80 degrees C for 1 h using low- cost secondary resources. Evidently, the results revealed that the Cu2+ ion content up to 0.1 was found to form tin ferrite and increasing of Cu2+ ion content up to 0.2 and 0.3 was seemed to obtain a secondary phase of copper ferrite nanorods. TEM images revealed that the produced tin ferrite powders were a high homogeneity cubic-like structure. Nevertheless, copper ferrite nanorods were confirmed. Meanwhile, magnetic properties of Sn1-xCuxFe2O4 nanoparticles relied on the copper ratio. Indeed, high magnetization (Ms = 56.5 emu/g) was fulfilled with copper content of 0.1 and it was decreased to (Ms = 40.2 emu/g) with increasing Cu2+ ion content to 0.3. Alternatively, the coercive force was found to decrease from 144.2 to 85.4 Oe with increasing the Cu ratio from 0.0 to 0.3. (C) 2017 Elsevier B. V. All rights reserved.