Effect of Cu substitution on the magnetic and magnetic induction heating response of CdFe₂O₄ spinel ferrite

Date

2020

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Publisher

Elsevier
Acceso abierto / Sarbide irekia
Artículo / Artikulua
Versión aceptada / Onetsi den bertsioa

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  • AEI/Plan Estatal de Investigación Científica y Técnica y de Innovación 2013-2016/MAT2017-83631-C3-2-R/ES/ recolecta
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Abstract

In this work, a comparative study of the effect of Cu on the structural, magnetic and magnetic induction heating response in CdFe2O4 spinel is presented. The ceramic nanoparticles (Cu1−xCdxFe2O4; 0 ≤ x ≤ 1) were synthesized by co-precipitation from Cu(II), Cd(II) and Fe(III) salts. The samples, characterized by X-ray diffractometry, display the characteristic spinel cubic structure (space group Fm3m) where CdO is detected as main secondary phase (≈ 16% weight for x = 1). A high degree of nanoparticle agglomeration is inferred from the Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) images, as a consequence of the employed synthesis procedure. Regarding the magnetic properties, superparamagnetic behavior at room temperature can be disregarded according to the low field magnetization response (ZFC-FC curves). For 0.4 ≤ x ≤ 0.8 ratios, the samples display maximum values in the magnetic moment that should be correlated to the cation distribution between the octahedral and tetrahedral sites. Maximum magnetization values lead to an enhancement in the magnetic induction heating response characterized by highest heating temperatures under the action of an ac magnetic field. In particular, maximum SAR values are estimated for x = 0.8 as a combined effect of high magnetic moment, low dc coercive field (high susceptibility). Although these Cu-Cd ferrite nanoparticles display moderate SAR values (around 0.7 W/g), the control of the maximum heating temperatures through the cation distribution (composition) provides promising properties to be used as nanosized heating elements (i.e. hyperthermia agents).

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Keywords

Magnetic nanoparticles, Cd ferrites, Cation distribution, Magnetic hyperthermia

Department

Zientziak / Institute for Advanced Materials and Mathematics - INAMAT2 / Ciencias

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