1. A comparative study on NiFe2O4 and ZnFe2O4 spinel nanoparticles: Structural, surface chemistry, optical, morphology and magnetic studies.
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Sundararajan, M., Sukumar, M., Dash, Chandra Sekhar, Sutha, A., Suresh, S., Ubaidullah, Mohd, Al-Enizi, Abdullah M., Raza, Md Kausar, and Kumar, Dinesh
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SURFACE chemistry , *FERRIC oxide , *SPINEL , *SPINEL group , *X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy , *NANOPARTICLES - Abstract
A comparative investigation of the structural, optical, and magnetic properties of NiFe 2 O 4 (NFO) and ZnFe 2 O 4 (ZFO) spinel nanoparticles were synthesized by microwave combustion method. X-ray diffraction (XRD) showed that the ZFO spinel nanoparticles formed a cubic structure, but the NFO spinel nanoparticles formed with additional Fe 2 O 3 in them. The average crystallite size was observed to be in the range 16–20 nm. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) peak areas are often used to quantify the elemental compositions and oxidizing states of NFO and ZFO spinel surfaces. The appearance of FT-IR bands at around 548, 514 and 649 cm−1 were correlated to the Fe–O and Zn/Ni–O stretching modes of cubic NFO and ZFO structure. The direct band gap estimated using Kubelka–Munk (K–M) method to obtain by the NFO is 3.35 eV and ZFO is 2.13 eV respectively. The surface morphology revealed nanosized crystalline grains with agglomerate separated particles that are like spherical/non-spherical forms and fused grain boundaries. Magnetic measurements of NFO and ZFO spinel nanoparticles showed ferromagnetic behavior at room temperature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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