Magnetic, Pseudocapacitive, and HO-Electrosensing Properties of Self-Assembled Superparamagnetic CoZnFeO with Enhanced Saturation Magnetization

Overview

Journal ACS Omega

Publisher American Chemical Society

Specialty Chemistry

Date 2019 Aug 29

PMID 31460384

Citations 1

Authors

Rituparna Mondal

Koyel Sarkar

Subhrajyoti Dey

Dipanwita Majumdar

Swapan Kumar Bhattacharya

Pintu Sen

Sanjay Kumar

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Abstract

The present work explores the structural, microstructural, optical, magnetic, and hyperfine properties of CoZnFeO microspheres, which have been synthesized by a novel template-free solvothermal method. Powder X-ray diffraction, electron microscopic, and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopic techniques were employed to thoroughly investigate the structural and microstructural properties of CoZnFeO microspheres. The results revealed that the microspheres (average diameter ∼121 nm) have been formed by self-assembly of nanoparticles with an average particle size of ∼12 nm. UV-vis diffuse reflectance spectroscopic and photoluminescence studies have been performed to study the optical properties of the sample. The studies indicate that CoZnFeO microspheres exhibit a lower band gap value and enhanced PL intensity compared to their nanoparticle counterpart. The outcomes of dc magnetic measurement and Mössbauer spectroscopic study confirm that the sample is ferrimagnetic in nature. The values of saturation magnetization are 76 and 116 emu g at 300 and 5 K, respectively, which are substantially larger than its nanosized counterpart. The infield Mössbauer spectroscopic study and Rietveld analysis of the PXRD pattern reveal that Fe ions have migrated from [B] to (A) sites resulting in the cation distribution: (Zn Fe )[Zn Co Fe ]O. Comparison of electrochemical performance of the CoZnFeO microspheres to that of the CoZnFeO nanoparticles reveals that the former displays greater specific capacitance (149.13 F g) than the latter (80.06 F g) due to its self-assembled porous structure. Moreover, it was found that CoZnFeO microspheres possess a better electrochemical response toward HO sensing than CoZnFeO nanoparticles in a wide linear range.

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