1. Molten Salt Synthesis of Micro-Sized Hexagonally Shaped REMnO 3 (RE = Y, Er, Tm, Yb).
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Karoblis, Dovydas, Zarkov, Aleksej, Murauskas, Tomas, and Kareiva, Aivaras
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FUSED salts , *RARE earth oxides , *YTTRIUM , *MANGANITE , *YTTERBIUM , *MANGANESE - Abstract
Yttrium manganite (YMnO3) is a compound belonging to the hexagonal rare earth manganites family, which demonstrates multiferroic properties. This material can be prepared by several synthetic approaches, with the most common one being the solid-state synthesis. In this work, we show a possibility of preparing this material via molten salt synthesis using the NaCl-KCl mixture as the reaction medium and yttrium and manganese nitrates as the starting materials. We demonstrate that, by varying the reaction temperature and the nitrates-to-chlorides ratio, it is feasible to synthesize hexagonally shaped particles of microscopic dimensions. A similar synthesis procedure can be successfully applied for the preparation of other hexagonal manganites—ErMnO3, TmMnO3, and YbMnO3. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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