Magnesium doped cobalt ferrite nanoparticles

Published on 02 Jul 2021. Written by Akshay

With the advancement in technology and growing nations, many things are developed in the field of construction and chemical industry.

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The advancement in chemical industries is also growing and many advanced methods are being developed

The various advancements like a mixture of various components to form nanoparticles

In this project, we will discuss the low synthesis of magnesium doped cobalt ferrite nanoparticles.

Spinel ferrites are important materials that are discussed. These are highly developed due to their advanced electrical and magnetic properties

Spinel ferrites have various applications in different branches of technologies. They find applications in the field of the information storage system, sensors, and catalysts

The Nano-ferrites can be explained based on the synthesis methods, nature, and type of substituent, particle size, pH, etc.

The cobalt –ferrite has some advanced features. It has high anisotropy of magnetocrystalline structures and high resistivity to the electricity. It can magnetize with good saturation

Another interesting Nanoparticle is Co-Mg because of its properties such as the magnetization, moderate saturation, and coercivity.

It also has other properties like better chemical stability and good mechanical hardness

Due to its nature, it also finds applications in the field of magnetic drug and information storage.

Methodologies used:

• Auto-combustion method from sol-gel
• Studies on diffraction by X-ray diffraction
• Debye Scherer’s formula
• Archimedes principle
• Scherer’s formula

Experimentation

• Magnesium Nano-crystalline samples are used for the experiment.
• Sol-gel with auto combustion methods are used to produce cobalt ferrite
• The synthesis of the material was done using chemicals of AR grade such as cobalt nitrate, magnesium nitrate, and ferric nitrate.
• The ratio between the metal nitrates and the fuel are maintained as 1:3
• To maintain the pH of the solution ammonia solution is added
• For the synthesis of co-mg nanoparticles, the temperature is maintained at 110 ?C.

Characterizations

• The characterization of co-mg nanoparticles is done using X-ray diffraction
• At room temperature, the XRD showed patterns in 2θ range which differed from 20? to 80? by using Cu-Kα radiation techniques

Conclusion

• It can be concluded that the above project has a wide scope since its environmental friendly
• The samples of sizes of particles were calculated using the Debye Scherer’s formula.
• The results were obtained in the range of 11-24 nm

Kit required to develop Magnesium doped cobalt ferrite nanoparticles:

• Magnesium

Technologies you will learn by working on Magnesium doped cobalt ferrite nanoparticles:

• nanotechnology

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