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COLLOIDS AND SURFACES A-PHYSICOCHEMICAL AND ENGINEERING ASPECTS
Volume 357, Issue 1-3, Pages 97-104Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfa.2010.01.001
Keywords
SBA-15; Mesoporous silica; Surface defects; Oxygen vacancy; E' centers; Magnetism
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- European Community [FP6-SES6-020133]
- Slovak Research and Development Agency [RPEU-0027-06]
- Ministry of Education of Slovak Republic [1/0119/08]
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The magnetic properties of SBA-15 silica were investigated between liquid helium and room temperature by a SQUID magnetometry. The sample exhibits the ferromagnetic behaviour at 2 K, represented by weak hysteresis with coercivity of H-c = 60 Oe and the saturation of the magnetization. The magnetic behaviour is sensitive to the atmosphere of experiment. At 2K the sample is ferromagnetic in air but diamagnetic in helium. The observed ferromagnetic interaction shows on the presence of unpaired electrons in the sample and the parallel spin alignment. It is suggested that the magnetic behaviour of the sample is the result of the adsorption of the oxygen molecules at the point defects, oxygen vacancies on the silica surface. The radical sites (equivalent to Si-O center dot and equivalent to Si center dot), which are known to be generated by dehydroxylation of silica surface isolated hydroxyl groups at temperatures above 673 K. are important for the observed ferromagnetic alignment of the oxygen molecules. The value of magnetization was shown to depend on the temperature of the hydrothermal treatment during the synthesis of SBA-15. The magnetization of the SBA-15 sample increased as the synthesis temperature increased from 40 to 100 degrees C, with the corresponding values of the magnetization 0.25 and 0.89 emu/g, respectively. The magnetic behaviour observed for SBA-15 sample was compared with the magnetic properties of MCM-41 silica and quartz glass. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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