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JOURNAL OF SOL-GEL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Volume 87, Issue 2, Pages 340-346Publisher
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DOI: 10.1007/s10971-018-4743-6
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BiFeO3; Photocatalyst; Nanoparticles; Semiconductors
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Bismuth ferrite (BiFeO3) nanopowder have been successfully synthesized for the first time via a microwave-assisted sol-gel combustion method by using citric acid as fuel. The resulting nanopowder was characterized using FT-IR, TG-DTA, XRD, EDX, VSM, SEM, and UV-Vis DRS. A ferromagnetic hysteresis loop with a saturation magnetization (M-S) of 0.66 emu g(-1) has been observed at room temperature in the sample. The optical properties of the nanosized BiFeO3 showed its small band gap (=2.08 eV) indicates a possibility of utilizing much visible light for photocatalysis. [GRAPHICS] .
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