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Study on co-precursor driven solid state thermal conversion of iron(III)citrate to iron oxide nanomaterials

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We explore the solventless synthesis of iron oxide nanomaterials obtained on thermal conversion of iron(III)citrate in presence of malonic acid and glucose as co-precursors in varying weight ratios and physical characterization of the materials obtained. Pure phase of hematite was found only for a particular combination of precursor and co-precursor and else a mixture of hematite and magnetite. Significant effect of the co-precursors on the nature and size of the synthesized materials was noticed. Gradual conversion of hematite to magnetite with increasing amount of co-precursor was established. Morin transition was observed in the temperature dependent magnetization study for the hematite materials. Absorption spectroscopy exhibited three different electronic transitions that take place within the 3d5 shell of the octahedrally coordinated Fe3+ ions for hematite materials. The optical (direct and indirect) band gaps estimated from the Tauc’s plot showed particle size dependence. From photoluminescence study the transitions of trapped electrons in various defect states of oxygen vacancies were observed which led to the appearance of nonradiative peaks. In the Raman spectra the significant bands of hematite (A1g and Eg bands) were noted. From morphology study the hematite nanomaterials appear as clusters of large irregular shaped particles of various sizes. Formation of hematite nanomaterials as observed by XRD studies was supplemented by the SAED patterns obtained in the HRTEM study. Present study established that nano-sized pure hematite materials can be thermally synthesized at comparatively lower temperature on thermal decomposition of iron(III)citrate by varying the weight ratio of suitable co-precursors.

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Author SK is thankful to DST-INSPIRE, Government of India for providing a fellowship. Authors acknowledge UGC-DAE-CSR, Indore, India, for providing facility to carry out Mössbauer measurements. Financial support for the thermogravimetry analyser (STA 449 F3 Jupiter) to the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, through a grant to the Department of Physics, Visva-Bharati is gratefully acknowledged. Authors thank DST PURSE Facility, Visva-Bharati University for providing the FE–SEM and EDX facilities.

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  1. Department of Physics, Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan, 731235, India

    S. Kundu, T. Sarkar & A. Bhattacharjee

  2. School of Physical Sciences, National Institute of Science Education and Research, An OCC of Homi Bhabha National Institute, Jatni, 752050, India

    G. Ghorai & P. K. Sahoo

  3. Institute of Materials Science, University of Silesia, Chorzow, Poland

    M. Zubko

  4. Department of Physics, University of Hradec Králové, Hradec Králové, Czech Republic

    M. Zubko

  5. Faculty of Chemistry, University of Wrocław, Wrocław, Poland

    M. Weselski

  6. UGC-DAE Consortium for Scientific Research, Indore, India

    V. Raghavendra Reddy

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Material preparation, major data collection and analysis were performed by SK. GG, PKS, TS, MZ, MW and VRR were involved in some data collections. AB conceptualized the problem and designed the study. The first draft of the manuscript was written by SK and finalized by AB. Authors reviewed the final manuscript.

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Kundu, S., Sarkar, T., Ghorai, G. et al. Study on co-precursor driven solid state thermal conversion of iron(III)citrate to iron oxide nanomaterials. Appl. Phys. A 129, 264 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00339-023-06559-4

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