Pushing up the magnetisation values for iron oxide nanoparticles via zinc doping: X-ray studies on the particle's sub-nano structure of different synthesis routes
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- The maximum magnetisation (saturation magnetisation) obtainable for iron oxide nanoparticles can be increased by doping the nanocrystals with non-magnetic elements such as zinc. Herein, we closely study how only slightly different synthesis approaches towards such doped nanoparticles strongly influence the resulting sub-nano/atomic structure. We compare two co-precipitation approaches, where we only vary the base (NaOH versus NH\(_3\)), and a thermal decomposition route. These methods are the most commonly applied ones for synthesising dopedThe maximum magnetisation (saturation magnetisation) obtainable for iron oxide nanoparticles can be increased by doping the nanocrystals with non-magnetic elements such as zinc. Herein, we closely study how only slightly different synthesis approaches towards such doped nanoparticles strongly influence the resulting sub-nano/atomic structure. We compare two co-precipitation approaches, where we only vary the base (NaOH versus NH\(_3\)), and a thermal decomposition route. These methods are the most commonly applied ones for synthesising doped iron oxide nanoparticles. The measurable magnetisation change upon zinc doping is about the same for all systems. However, the sub-nano structure, which we studied with Mossbauer and X-ray absorption near edge spectroscopy, differs tremendously. We found evidence that a much more complex picture has to be drawn regarding what happens upon Zn doping compared to what textbooks tell us about the mechanism. Our work demonstrates that it is crucial to study the obtained structures very precisely when "playing'' with the atomic order in iron oxide nanocrystals.…
Author: | Wojciech Szczerba, Jan Zukrowski, Marek Przybylski, Marcin Sikora, Olga Safonova, Aleksey Shmeliov, Valeria Nicolosi, Michael Schneider, Tim Granath, Maximilian Oppmann, Marion Straßer, Karl Mandel |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-187390 |
Document Type: | Journal article |
Faculties: | Fakultät für Chemie und Pharmazie / Institut für Funktionsmaterialien und Biofabrikation |
Language: | English |
Parent Title (English): | Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics |
Year of Completion: | 2016 |
Volume: | 18 |
Issue: | 36 |
Pagenumber: | 25221-25229 |
Source: | Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (2016) 18:36, 25221-25229. https://doi.org/10.1039/C6CP04221J |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1039/c6cp04221j |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 54 Chemie / 542 Techniken, Ausstattung, Materialien |
Tag: | FE; Ferrite |
Release Date: | 2020/06/16 |
Licence (German): | CC BY: Creative-Commons-Lizenz: Namensnennung |