Nanocrystalline transition-metal gallium oxide spinels from acetylacetonate precursors via solvothermal synthesis
| dc.creator | Daniel Sean Cook | |
| dc.creator | Reza J. Kashtiban | |
| dc.creator | Klaus Wilhelm Heinrich Krambrock | |
| dc.creator | Geraldo Magela de Lima | |
| dc.creator | Humberto Osório Stumpf | |
| dc.creator | Luciano Roni Silva Lara | |
| dc.creator | José Domingos Ardisson | |
| dc.creator | Richard I. Walton | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-11-11T18:52:07Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-09-08T23:57:09Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-11-11T18:52:07Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2019-03-12 | |
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| dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.3390/ma12050838 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 19961944 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1843/47196 | |
| dc.language | eng | |
| dc.publisher | Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Materials | |
| dc.rights | Acesso Aberto | |
| dc.subject | Ferrita | |
| dc.subject | Cristalização | |
| dc.subject | Magnetismo | |
| dc.subject.other | Ferrite | |
| dc.subject.other | Crystallisation | |
| dc.subject.other | Magnetism | |
| dc.subject.other | XANES | |
| dc.subject.other | Mössbauer spectroscopy | |
| dc.subject.other | EPR | |
| dc.title | Nanocrystalline transition-metal gallium oxide spinels from acetylacetonate precursors via solvothermal synthesis | |
| dc.type | Artigo de periódico | |
| local.citation.epage | 16 | |
| local.citation.issue | 5 | |
| local.citation.spage | 1 | |
| local.citation.volume | 12 | |
| local.description.resumo | The synthesis of mixed-metal spinels based on substituted γ-Ga₂O₃ is reported using metal acetylacetonate precursors in solvothermal reactions with alcohols as solvents at 240 °C. New oxides of Cr, Mn and Fe have been produced, all of which are formed as nanocrystalline powders, as seen by high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HR-TEM). The first chromium-gallium mixed oxide is thus formed, with composition 0.33Ga1.87Cr0.8O₄ ( = vacant site). X-ray absorption near-edge spectroscopy (XANES) at the chromium K-edge shows the presence of solely octahedral Cr3+, which in turn implies a mixture of tetrahedral and octahedral Ga3+, and the material is stable on annealing to at least 850 °C. An analogous manganese material with average chemical composition close to MnGa₂O₄ is shown to contain octahedral Mn2+, along with some Mn3+, but a different inversion factor to materials reported by conventional solid-state synthesis in the literature, which are known to have a significant proportion of tetrahedral Mn2+. In the case of iron, higher amounts of the transition metal can be included to give an Fe:Ga ratio of 1:1. Elemental mapping using energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy on the TEM, however, reveals inhomogeneity in the distribution of the two metals. This is consistent with variable temperature 57Fe Mössbauer spectroscopy that shows the presence of Fe2+ and Fe3+ in more than one phase in the sample. Variable temperature magnetisation and electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) indicate the presence of superparamagnetism at room temperature in the iron-gallium oxides. | |
| local.identifier.orcid | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3871-1647 | |
| local.identifier.orcid | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7562-0285 | |
| local.publisher.country | Brasil | |
| local.publisher.department | ICX - DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA | |
| local.publisher.department | ICX - DEPARTAMENTO DE QUÍMICA | |
| local.publisher.initials | UFMG | |
| local.url.externa | https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1944/12/5/838 |