Sonochemical synthesis, structural, magnetic and grain size dependent electrical properties of NdVO4 nanoparticles

S Yuvaraj; R Kalai Selvan; Vijay Bhooshan Kumar; Ilana Perelshtein; A Gedanken; S Isakkimuthu; S Arumugam

doi:10.1016/j.ultsonch.2013.08.015

Sonochemical synthesis, structural, magnetic and grain size dependent electrical properties of NdVO4 nanoparticles

Ultrason Sonochem. 2014 Mar;21(2):599-605. doi: 10.1016/j.ultsonch.2013.08.015. Epub 2013 Sep 12.

Authors

S Yuvaraj¹, R Kalai Selvan, Vijay Bhooshan Kumar, Ilana Perelshtein, A Gedanken, S Isakkimuthu, S Arumugam

Affiliation

¹ Solid State Ionics and Energy Devices Laboratory, Department of Physics, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore 641 046, India.

PMID: 24090832
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultsonch.2013.08.015

Abstract

NdVO4 nanoparticles are successfully synthesized by efficient sonochemical method using two different structural directing agents like CTAB and P123. The phase formation and functional group analysis are carried out using X-ray diffraction (XRD) and fourier transform infra red (FT-IR) spectra, respectively. Using Scherrer equation the calculated grain sizes are 27 nm, 24 nm and 20 nm corresponding to NdVO4 synthesized by without surfactant, with CTAB and P123, respectively. The TEM images revealed that the shape of NdVO4 particles is rice-like and rod shaped particles while using CTAB and P123 as surfactants. The growth mechanism of NdVO4 nanoparticles is elucidated with the aid of TEM analysis. From electrical analysis, the conductivity of NdVO4 nanoparticles synthesized without surfactant showed a higher conductivity of 5.5703 × 10(-6) S cm(-1). The conductivity of the material depends on grain size and increased with increase in grain size due to the grain size effect. The magnetic measurements indicated the paramagnetic behavior of NdVO4 nanoparticles.

Keywords: Electrical and magnetic properties; Growth mechanism; NdVO(4) nanoparticles; Sonochemical synthesis.