Journal of Inorganic Materials

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Synthesis of Nanoparticles of Li Ferrite by Solid State Method

JIANG Ji-Sen; GAO Lian; GUO Jing-Kun; YANG Xie-Long+; SHEN Hong-Lie++   

  1. State Key Lab of High Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructure; Shanghai Iinstitute of Ceramics; Chinese Academy of Sciences Shanghai 200050 China;- +Department of Physics; East China Normal University Shanghai 200062 China; ++State Key Laboratory of Functional Materials for Informatics, Shanghai Institute of Metallurgy, Chinese Academy of Sciences Shanghai 200050 China
  • Received:1998-07-16 Revised:1998-08-21 Published:1999-06-20 Online:1999-06-20

Abstract: The precursor of Li ferrite with a solid solution structure was prepared by mechanochemical treatment of Li2CO3 and α-Fe2O3
powders through high energy ball milling. Li ferrite was obtained after heat treatment of the precursor under a temperature much lower than that
required in general solid state reaction. LiFeO2 was the intermediate of the formation of Li ferrite. The ferrite was characterized by
Mossbauer spectra, XRD, IR spectra, TEM and VSM methods. The results showed that the ferrite was nanoparticles with ordered
structure of Li+ and Fe3+ ions in the octahedral sites of the ferrite. The magnetization of the ferrite nanoparticles was higher than that of
the samples synthesized by wet chemical method and the coercivity of the ferrite was higher than that of the bulk ferrite.

Key words: Li ferrite, nanoparticle, high energy ball milling, mechanochemical treatment

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