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Impact of annealing temperature on structural, optical, and Mössbauer properties of nanocrystalline NiFe2O4

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In this paper, we have investigated the effect of annealing temperature on the structural, optical, and Mössbauer properties of nanocrystalline (NC) nickel ferrites (NFOs) synthesized by the sol–gel auto-combustion method. The NFOs were characterized by X-Ray diffraction (XRD), Raman spectroscopy, Diffusion reflectance spectroscopy (DRS), and Mössbauer spectroscopy techniques. The XRD results show that the average crystallite size increases from 27.5 to 54.3 nm when increasing the annealing temperature from 200 to 1000 °C. The Ultraviolet–Visible Diffuse Reflectance Spectroscopy (UV-DRS) measurement is used to find the optical band gap observed between 1.92 and 1.75 eV for NFOs annealed at 200 and 1000 °C, respectively. The Mössbauer study confirmed that the structure transforms from mixed spinel to inverse spinel structure when moving to higher annealing temperature.

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The authors are thankful to the Head, Department of Physics M.L. Sukhadia University, Udaipur for providing XRD facility and MRC, MNIT Jaipur for Raman spectroscopy measurements and also grateful to Prof. L. K. Kennedy Department of Physics, VIT Chennai for providing DRS facility. One of us (HSM) is grateful to Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), New Delhi for proving grant under Core Research Grant Scheme (CRG/2020/002826). The authors are thankful to Dr. Vidyadhar Singh, Dept. of Physics, J P University, Chapra for his support during the revision.

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    Pradeep Prajapat & Abhishek Saxena

  3. Department of Chemistry, Banasthali University, Banasthali, Rajasthan, 304022, India

    Saroj Dhaka & Sudesh Kumar

  4. Solid State Physics Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, 400085, India

    Sher Singh Meena

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Mund, H.S., Prajapat, P., Dhaka, S. et al. Impact of annealing temperature on structural, optical, and Mössbauer properties of nanocrystalline NiFe2O4. J Mater Sci: Mater Electron 32, 27232–27242 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-021-07089-6

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