Rietveld refined structural analysis, surface analysis, thermo-elastic, mechano-elastic properties of cobalt ferrite nanoparticles doped with Y3+ ions
摘要
The magnetic nanoparticles of Y3+ doped cobalt ferrite (CoFe2 − xYxO4, x = 0.00, 0.01, 0.02, 0.03, 0.04, 0.05) were synthesized by sol-gel auto combustion method using green synthesis approach by utilizing Piper Nigrum (black pepper) extract. The structural, surface, thermo-elastic and mechano-elastic properties were investigated using Rietveld X-ray diffraction analysis, transmission electron microscopy (TEM), Brunauer Emmitt Teller (BET) and Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR) techniques. The X-ray diffraction analysis confirmed the single phase production of the nanoparticles. The XRD patterns of all the samples were successfully refined using Rietveld analysis, yielding goodness-of-fit (χ2) values in the range of1.83-3.03.The average particle sizeobtained from histogram plots was in the range of 45 –47 nm. The surface area calculated through BET analysis was found to be 1.555 m2/g, 8.796 m2/g and 17.509 m2/g for x = 0.00, 0.03 and 0.05 respectively. The thermo-elastic properties namely Debye temperature found todecreases from 690 K to 675 K with Y3+ doping. The mechano-elastic properties such as Young’s modulus decreases from 149.31 GPa to 143.31 GPa, bulk modulus decreases from 106.11 GPa to 101.85 GPa, the modulus of rigidity decreases from 71.87 GPa to 68.98 GPa on doping Y3+ ions. However, thePoisson’s ratio remains almost constant to 0.224. Thus, the doping of Y3+ ions in cobalt ferrite strongly affects the structural, surface, thermo-elastic, mechano-elastic properties.