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Structural, magnetic, optical, and photocatalytic properties of Ca–Ni doped BiFeO3 nanoparticles

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In this article, we have studied the structural, magnetic, optical, and photocatalytic properties of Bi1−xCaxFe1−xNixO3 multiferroics synthesized by sol–gel method. X-ray diffraction predicted the superposition of two structural phases (rhombohedral-R3c + orthorhombic-Pnma) for (x = 0.05, 0.10) samples. Correspondingly, drastic variations in the Raman modes were detected at low and high wavenumbers with increasing the Ca–Ni content. The larger change in the magnetic parameters at room temperature was identified for Bi0.90Ca0.10Fe0.90Ni0.10O3 nanoparticles caused by the formation of a new orthorhombic phase. The XPS spectroscopy study supported the magnetic enhancement in x = 0.10 samples due to increasing concentration of Fe2+, Ni2+ ions, and oxygen vacancies. The shift of ESR pattern with doping agrees with the magnetization values. The energy band gap values were altered by increasing the Ca–Ni content in BiFeO3 samples, from 2.22 to 2.05 eV. The photocatalytic activity of Ca–Ni doped BiFeO3 photocatalyst showed higher degradation rate (− 0.035/min) of Methylene blue (MB) in comparison to pure BiFeO3.

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Sunil Chauhan offers a warm gratitude to Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), File Number TAR/2019/000210, Govt. of India to accomplish the current research work.

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  1. Department of Physics, Centre of Excellence in Solar Cell and Renewable Energy, SBSR, Sharda University, Greater Noida, U. P., 201310, India

    Babita Tripathi, Sunil Chauhan, Mohit Sahni & R. C. Singh

  2. Department of Physics and Materials Science, JIIT Noida, Noida, U. P., 201309, India

    Manoj Kumar

  3. Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, SBSR, Sharda University, Greater Noida, U. P., 201310, India

    Pankaj Gupta

  4. Department of Physics, Rajiv Gandhi Government Post Graduate College, Mandsaur, Madhya Pradesh, 458001, India

    Prakash Chand Sati

  5. Special Centre for Nanoscience, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 110067, India

    Satyendra Singh

  6. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA

    Daksh Agarwal

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Tripathi, B., Chauhan, S., Kumar, M. et al. Structural, magnetic, optical, and photocatalytic properties of Ca–Ni doped BiFeO3 nanoparticles. J Mater Sci: Mater Electron 33, 16856–16873 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-022-08555-5

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