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JOURNAL OF NON-CRYSTALLINE SOLIDS
Volume 337, Issue 3, Pages 226-231Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jnoncrysol.2004.04.015
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Glasses with the mol% composition 4.9Na(2)O . 33.3CaO . 17.1Fe(2)O(3) . 44.7B(2)O(3) were melted, rapidly quenched using a twin roller technique, and subsequently tempered in the range from 550 to 620 degreesC. This led to the crystallization of magnetite with mean crystallite sizes in the 10-20 nm range. Using higher temperatures resulted in a larger quantity of formed crystallites and slightly larger mean crystallite sizes. Larger tempering times did not lead to substantial crystal growth. The time law of Ostwald ripening was not followed. This is explained by an increase in viscosity of the residual glassy phase during nucleation and crystal growth. Here, the smaller iron concentration near the crystals leads to higher viscosities and to the formation of a diffusional barrier around the crystals, which reduces further crystal growth. The crystallization stops, if T-g of the residual glassy phase is equal to the tempering temperature. Magnetite nano crystals with sizes in the 10-20 nm range offer a wide range of applications, such as the preparation of ferrofluids or of materials for medical diagnostics and therapy. (C) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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