Growth of monodisperse nanospheres of MnFe2O4 with enhanced magnetic and optical properties

doi:10.1088/1674-1056/22/10/107101

Abstract Highly dispersive nanospheres of MnFe₂O₄ are prepared by template free hydrothermal method. The nanospheres have 47.3-nm average diameter, narrow size distribution, and good crystallinity with average crystallite size about 22 nm. The reaction temperature strongly affects the morphology, and high temperature is found to be responsible for growth of uniform nanospheres. Raman spectroscopy reveals high purity of prepared nanospheres. High saturation magnetization (78.3 emu/g), low coercivity (45 Oe, 1 Oe=79.5775 A·cm^-1), low remanence (5.32 emu/g), and high anisotropy constant 2.84×10⁴ J/m³ (10 times larger than bulk) are observed at room temperatures. The nearly superparamagnetic behavior is due to comparable size of nanospheres with superparamagnetic critical diameter D_cr^spm. The high value of K_eff may be due to coupling between the pinned moment in the amorphous shell and the magnetic moment in the core of the nanospheres. The nanospheres show prominent optical absorption in the visible region, and the indirect band gap is estimated to be 0.98 eV from the transmission spectrum. The prepared Mn ferrite has potential applications in biomedicine and photocatalysis.

Keywords: Mn ferrite magnetic materials hydrothermal method superparamagnetic Raman spectroscopy

Received: 06 February 2013
Revised: 03 April 2013
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PACS:	71.10.Ay	(Fermi-liquid theory and other phenomenological models)
	75.50.-y	(Studies of specific magnetic materials)
	75.75.-c	(Magnetic properties of nanostructures)
	78.67.Bf	(Nanocrystals, nanoparticles, and nanoclusters)

Fund: Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 50472092, 50672008, and 50971023), the Beijing Natural Science Foundation (Preparation and Magnetic Properties of Ferromagnetic Nanoring Lattice), and Research Foundation for Talented Scholars of China Three Gorges University. M. Y. Rafique was also supported by the Chancellor Scholarship of the University of Science and Technology of Beijing.

Corresponding Authors: Pan Li-Qing
E-mail: lpan@ctgu.edu.cn

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M. Yasir Rafique, Pan Li-Qing (潘礼庆), Qurat-ul-ain Javed, M. Zubair Iqbal, Qiu Hong-Mei (邱红梅), M. Hassan Farooq, Guo Zhen-Gang (郭振刚), M. Tanveer Growth of monodisperse nanospheres of MnFe₂O₄ with enhanced magnetic and optical properties 2013 Chin. Phys. B 22 107101

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