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Grain Size Control of the Magnetic Nanoparticles by Solid State Route Modification

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The CoFe2O4 and NiFe2O4 nanoparticles were synthesized exploiting a co-precipitation method and afterward calcinated at 400 °C through two different experimental apparatus: a conventional muffle and rotatory oven. X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis revealed that nanocrystalline ferrites grew with a face center cubic structure (fcc) and Fd3m symmetry space group. XRD, transmission electron microscopy, and magnetic measurements confirmed the compositional homogeneity and the narrow size particle distribution (6-8 nm) of the sample thermally treated in a rotary oven, in all likelihood due to the sample’s constant turning movement. The size of the magnetic particles is extremely important and influences the choice of a potential technological application. For this reason, our study emerges as a new and simple innovating procedure to control the size of magnetic nanoparticles.

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Acknowledgments

The support from CAPES, Funcap, and CNPq (Brazilian agencies); Fondecyt 1110252; Millennium Science Nucleus, Basic and Applied Magnetism Grant No. P10-061-F; and CONICYT BASAL CEDENNA FB0807 (Chilean agencies) is gratefully acknowledged.

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  1. Grupo de Química de Materiais Avançados (GQMAT), Departamento de Química Analítica e Físico-Química, Universidade Federal do Ceará – UFC, Campus do Pici, CP 12100, Fortaleza, CE, CEP 60451-970, Brazil

    A. C. H. Barreto, V. R. Santiago, R. M. Freire & P. B. A. Fechine

  2. Laboratório de Produtos e Tecnologia em Processos – LPT, Departamento de Química Orgânica e Inorgânica, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza, CE, Brazil

    A. C. H. Barreto, V. R. Santiago & S. E. Mazzetto

  3. Laboratório de Raios X, Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Campus do Pici, Fortaleza, CE, Brazil

    J. M. Sasaki

  4. Departamento de Engenharia Metalúrgica e de Materiais, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza, CE, Brazil

    I. F. Vasconcelos

  5. Departamento de Física, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, USACH, Av. Ecuador 3493, Santiago, Chile

    J. C. Denardin

  6. Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Innovazione, Università del Salento, Via Arnesano, 73100, Lecce, Italy

    Giuseppe Mele

  7. Istituto Nanoscienze UOS Lecce – NNL, Via Arnesano 16, 73100, Lecce, Italy

    Luigi Carbone

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Barreto, A.C.H., Santiago, V.R., Freire, R.M. et al. Grain Size Control of the Magnetic Nanoparticles by Solid State Route Modification. J. of Materi Eng and Perform 22, 2073–2079 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11665-013-0480-8

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