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Structural, optical, dielectric, and magnetic properties of iron-sillenite Bi25FeO40

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The iron-sillenite Bi25FeO40 has been synthesized using the solid-state reaction route. The elaborated material crystallizes in a cubic structure. The studied material exhibits an anomaly, noticed via the DSC analysis and dielectric measurements at 671 K. This anomaly can be attributed to the occurrence of a thermally activated relaxation in the Bi25FeO40 sample. Besides, the magnetic study revealed the antiferromagnetic behaviour of γ-Bi25FeO40 sillenite, with a 240 K of Neel temperature TN, Curie constant of 9.18 10–8 m3.K/mol, resulting in a magnetic moment of 6.37 μB. Furthermore, the band gap of Bi25FeO40 is about 2.02 eV and the magnetic behavior makes it an appropriate candidate as a photocatalyst for water and/or wastewater treatment, and degradation of pollutants, that can be simply recycled by magnetic separation.

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    H. Jebari, N. Tahiri, O. El Bounagui & H. Ez-Zahraouy

  2. Instituto de Investigaciones en Materiales, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico

    M. Boujnah

  3. Laboratory of Physics and Chemistry of Inorganic and Organic Materials (LPCMIO), Materials Science Research Center, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Mohammed V University in Rabat, Rabat, Morocco

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Jebari, H., Tahiri, N., Boujnah, M. et al. Structural, optical, dielectric, and magnetic properties of iron-sillenite Bi25FeO40. Appl. Phys. A 128, 842 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00339-022-05973-4

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