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Ultrasound-Assisted Synthesis and Tuning the Magnetic and Structural Features of Superparamagnetic Fe3O4 Nanoparticles by Using Ethylenediamine as a Precipitating Agent

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Due to the strong effect of nanoparticles’ size on the magnetic and structural properties of Fe3O4 (magnetite) nanoparticles, the size selection proportional to desired magnetization especially superparamagnetic characteristic of these particles is very important. In this work, at first, the Fe3O4 nanoparticles successfully synthesized by a novel precipitating agent, ethylenediamine (EN), with an ultrasonic treatment (40 kHz, 150 W) by the co-precipitation method. Then, in order to accurately investigate the synthesis conditions on the physical properties of Fe3O4, the influence of reaction temperature, reaction time, and precipitating agent are studied. The structural and magnetic properties of the as-prepared nanoparticles are characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), Rietveld refinement, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), and vibrating sample magnetometer (VSM) analysis. It is found that the EN produces magnetite nanoparticles with a larger size and desired saturation magnetization (Ms). The absence of impurity phases in all of the synthesized nanoparticles and formation of the spinel structures at low temperature (30 °C) can be due to the influence of the ultrasound waves.

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    Komail Boustani & Aliasghar Shokri

  2. Nanostructure Lab, Physics Department, University of Guilan, Rasht, Iran

    Saber Farjami Shayesteh & Atefeh Jafari

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Boustani, K., Shokri, A., Shayesteh, S.F. et al. Ultrasound-Assisted Synthesis and Tuning the Magnetic and Structural Features of Superparamagnetic Fe3O4 Nanoparticles by Using Ethylenediamine as a Precipitating Agent. J Supercond Nov Magn 33, 1879–1887 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10948-020-05436-y

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