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Mössbauer spectroscopy of ZnxMg1-x Fe2O4 (0 ≤ x ≤ 0.74) nanostructures crystallized from borate glasses

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Glasses in the system 51.7 B2O3/9.3 K2O/1 P2O5/10.4 Fe2O3/(27.6 − y) MgO/y ZnO (with y = 0, 1, 2.5, 5, 7.5, 10, 13.8, and 20) were prepared by the conventional melt quenching method. The glass samples were thermally treated at 560 °C for 3 h in ambient conditions. Using 57Fe Mössbauer spectroscopy, the effect of the substitution of MgO by ZnO in the glass network and the effect on the precipitated crystallized phase was studied. The results showed that the ratio of Zn2+:Mg2+ in the precipitated crystals increases with the ZnO concentration in the glass. The isomer shift values indicated that iron occurs as Fe3+, which is distributed at the tetrahedral (A) and the octahedral [B] sites. Introducing ZnO leads to a relative increase of the Fe3+ concentration at the B sites at the expense of that occupying the A sites. This indicates the precipitation of ZnxMg1-x Fe2O4 nanoparticles, where Zn2+ ions favorably occupy the A sites. The average hyperfine field of the samples showed a strong dependence on the Zn concentration. At the highest Zn concentration of 13.8 and 20 mol%, the samples are paramagnetic, while for the smaller ones, the samples are superparamagnetic.

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  1. Otto Schott Institute of Materials Research, Jena University, 07743, Jena, Germany

    S. El Shabrawy & C. Rüssel

  2. Department of Nuclear Reactors, Czech Technical University in Prague, V Holešovičkách 2, 180 00, Prague, Czech Republic

    M. Miglierini

  3. TU Ilmenau, Institute of Materials Science and Engineering and Institute of Micro and Nanotechnologies MacroNano®, Gustav-Kirchhoff-Strasse 5, 98693, Ilmenau, Germany

    P. Schaaf

  4. Department of Physics, University of Sofia “St. Kl. Ohridski”, James Bouchier Blvd 5, 1164, Sofia, Bulgaria

    D. Tzankov & M. Georgieva

  5. Department of Physics, University of Chemical Technology and Metallurgy, 8 Kl. Ohridski Blvd, 1756, Sofia, Bulgaria

    R. Harizanova

  6. Faculty of Science, Physics Department, University of Menofia, Shebin ElKoum, Menofia, 32511, Egypt

    S. El Shabrawy

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El Shabrawy, S., Miglierini, M., Schaaf, P. et al. Mössbauer spectroscopy of ZnxMg1-x Fe2O4 (0 ≤ x ≤ 0.74) nanostructures crystallized from borate glasses. J Nanopart Res 20, 81 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11051-018-4180-z

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