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Cation ratio and oxygen defects for engineering the magnetic transition of monodisperse nonstoichiometric zinc ferrite nanoparticles

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SCIENCE CHINA-MATERIALS
卷 64, 期 8, 页码 2017-2028

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SCIENCE PRESS
DOI: 10.1007/s40843-020-1592-y

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zinc ferrite; nonstoichiometric; magnetic transition; oxygen defects

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  1. National Natural Science Foundation of China [51572218, 11504293, 11904275]
  2. Natural Science Foundation of Shaanxi Province [2019JM-138]
  3. Shaanxi Provincial Education Department [18JK0786, 19JK0413, 20JK0946]
  4. Key Project of Research and Development of Shaanxi Province [2018ZDCXL-GY-08-05]

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Monodisperse nonstoichiometric zinc ferrite nanoparticles were synthesized with tunable sizes, revealing a transition from superparamagnetism to ferromagnetism as particle size increased due to the influence of oxygen vacancies. The presence of extrinsic impurity phases and the reduction of spin magnetic moments were observed, providing new insights into the magnetic properties of spinel ferrites.
Monodisperse nonstoichiometric zinc ferrite nanoparticles with a tunable size of 4.1-32.2 nm are fabricated via thermal decomposition. An extrinsic impurity phase of the ZnO component is present in the zinc ferrite nanoparticles with a size of <10 nm, but this phase can be eliminated after the air annealing treatment. The atom ratio of Zn/Fe and concentration of oxygen vacancies decrease as the particle size of zinc ferrite increases, causing magnetic transition from superparamagnetism to ferromagnetism. The X-ray magnetic circular dichroism spectra reveal that the spin magnetic moments of Fe3+ are reduced, and the orbital magnetic moments are frozen with the increasing atom ratio of Zn/Fe. Therefore, saturation magnetization decreases. The saturation magnetizations of all the zinc ferrite nanoparticles decrease after the air annealing treatment, suggesting that oxygen vacancies considerably influence the magnetic properties. The air annealing treatment can minimize the number of oxygen defects, which trigger some of the Fe3+-O-V-Fe3+ ferrimagnetic couplings to transfer into the Fe3+-O2--Fe3+ antiferromagnetic couplings. This work provides new insights regarding the magnetic performance of spinel ferrites by tuning the stoichiometric ratio and oxygen defects.

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