An effect of scandium substitution on the phase purity and structural, magnetic, and electrochemical features of epsilon-Fe2O3 nanoparticle systems

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00216275:25530/22:39919589

Result on the web

<a href="https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2022/NR/D2NR00392A" target="_blank" >https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2022/NR/D2NR00392A</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d2nr00392a" target="_blank" >10.1039/d2nr00392a</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

An effect of scandium substitution on the phase purity and structural, magnetic, and electrochemical features of epsilon-Fe2O3 nanoparticle systems

Original language description

A series of Sc-substituted ϵ-Fe2O3 nanoparticles embedded in a silica matrix were synthesized by a sol-gel process. It was found that the preparation of a pure ϵ-Fe2O3 phase without any other iron(iii) oxide phases as admixtures was achieved for ϵ-Sc0.1Fe1.9O3 (5 at% of Sc) as documented by analyses of X-ray powder diffraction (XRD) results. Extensive physicochemical characterization of the ϵ-Sc0.1Fe1.9O3 sample was performed employing transmission electron microscopy (TEM), high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM), magnetization measurements, 57Fe Mössbauer spectroscopy, and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS). Magnetization vs. temperature plots showed vanishing of the two-step magnetic transition for the Sc-doped ϵ-Fe2O3 sample; a decrease in the magnetization profile was observed only once upon the change in the temperature. The Sc3+ substitution was found to cause a constriction of the magnetic transition region and a shift of the onset of the magnetic transition to a higher temperature in comparison with the undoped ϵ-Fe2O3 system. Moreover, upon the introduction of Sc3+ ions in the ϵ-Fe2O3 crystal lattice, a magnetic hardness was altered accompanied by a decrease in the coercivity. With 57Fe Mössbauer spectroscopy, it was identified that Sc3+ predominantly substitutes Fe3+ in the distorted octahedral A- and B-sites and with almost equivalent occupation probability at both positions. Moreover, the electrochemical measurements confirmed the increase in the resistivity in the Sc-doped ϵ-Fe2O3 systems. Thus, the results, achieved within the present study, demonstrated an effect of Sc3+ substitution on the preparation purity of ϵ-Fe2O3 systems without the presence of any other iron(iii) oxide admixtures and on the change in its magnetic and electrochemical features, proving their feasible tuning with respect to the requirements of potential future applications

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

21002 - Nano-processes (applications on nano-scale); (biomaterials to be 2.9)

Project

Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Nanoscale

ISSN

2040-3364

e-ISSN

2040-3372

Volume of the periodical

14

Issue of the periodical within the volume

14

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

13

Pages from-to

5501-5513

UT code for WoS article

000773593500001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85127696822