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Synthesis and Characterization of High-Energy Ball-Milled Nanostructured Fe25Se75

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Iron Selenide (Fe25Se75) powders have been synthesized by mechanical alloying from pure elemental Fe and Se powders in a high-energy planetary ball mill. Morphological, compositional, structural and thermal changes during milling have been analyzed by scanning electron microscopy coupled to energy dispersive x-ray analysis, x-ray diffraction (XRD) and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). With milling time up to 6 h, combined XRD patterns and DSC show α-Fe as well as some amorphous selenium. For the samples milled between 10 h and 20 h, the orthorhombic FeSe2 and β-FeSe hexagonal nanometric phases are formed and the volume fraction of the α-Fe phase decreases. As for 33 h and 52 h of milling, the α-Fe phase completely disappears and a new phase emerges, also in nanometric scale, typical of Fe7Se8 phase.

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Acknowledgements

Anne-Marie Mercier (Laboratoire des fluorures, Université du Maine) and Kamel Taibi (Crystallography-Thermodynamics Laboratory, Faculty of Chemistry, USTHB, Algiers) are gratefully acknowledged for their help in performing XRD and SEM experiments.

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  1. Laboratoire de Magnétisme et de Spectroscopie des Solides, Département de Physique, Faculté des Sciences, Université de Annaba, 23200, Sidi Amar, Algeria

    A. Chebli, A. Djekoun, N. Boudinar, M. Benabdeslem & B. Bouzabata

  2. Laboratoire de Physico-chimie des Surfaces et Interfaces, Université du 20 Août 1955, BP26, 21000, Skikda, Algeria

    A. Otmani

  3. Departmento de fisica, Universitat de Girona, Campus Montilivi, 17071, Girona, Spain

    J. J. sunõl

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Chebli, A., Djekoun, A., Boudinar, N. et al. Synthesis and Characterization of High-Energy Ball-Milled Nanostructured Fe25Se75 . JOM 68, 351–361 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11837-015-1682-3

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