Effect of chromium addition on the structural, morphological and magnetic properties of nano-crystalline cobalt ferrite system
Ceramics International(2012)
Abstract
Nano-crystalline chromium doped cobalt ferrite powders have been synthesized by PEG assisted hydrothermal route. The structural, morphological and magnetic properties of the products were determined by X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), energy-dispersive X-ray (EDX) spectroscopy and vibrating sample magnetometer (VSM). X-ray analysis showed that the samples were cubic spinel. SEM images reveal that the samples' surfaces exhibit well-defined crystalline nanoparticles of spherical shapes with small agglomeration. The addition of Cr3+ ions caused a decrease in the average crystallite size, magnetization and the coercive field of the sample. The observed decreases in saturation magnetization and coercivity are explained on the bases of exchange interactions.
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Key words
Hydrothermal synthesis,XRD,Magnetic nanoparticles,Mn–Co spinel ferrites
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