Magnetic Attributes of NiFe2O4 Nanoparticles: Influence of Dysprosium Ions (Dy3+) Substitution

Munirah Abdullah Almessiere; Y Slimani; H Güngüneş; S Ali; A Manikandan; I Ercan; A Baykal; A V Trukhanov

doi:10.3390/nano9060820

Magnetic Attributes of NiFe₂O₄ Nanoparticles: Influence of Dysprosium Ions (Dy³⁺) Substitution

Nanomaterials (Basel). 2019 May 31;9(6):820. doi: 10.3390/nano9060820.

Authors

Munirah Abdullah Almessiere^{1

2}, Y Slimani³, H Güngüneş⁴, S Ali⁵, A Manikandan⁶, I Ercan⁷, A Baykal⁸, A V Trukhanov^{9

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Affiliations

¹ Department of Biophysics, Institute for Research & Medical Consultations (IRMC), Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, P.O. Box 1982, Dammam 31441, Saudi Arabia. malmessiere@iau.edu.sa.
² Department of Physics, College of Science, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, P.O. Box 1982, Dammam 31441, Saudi Arabia. malmessiere@iau.edu.sa.
³ Department of Biophysics, Institute for Research & Medical Consultations (IRMC), Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, P.O. Box 1982, Dammam 31441, Saudi Arabia. yaslimani@iau.edu.sa.
⁴ Department of Physics, Hitit University, Çevre Yolu Bulvarı-Çorum 19030, Turkey. gungunes@gmail.com.
⁵ Mechanical and Energy Engineering Department College of Engineering, Imam Abdulrahman bin Faisal University, P.O. Box 1982, Dammam 31441, Saudi Arabia. sadali@iau.edu.sa.
⁶ Department of Chemistry, Bharath Institute of Higher Education and Research, Bharath University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600073, India. manikandana.che@bharatuniv.ac.in.
⁷ Department of Biophysics, Institute for Research & Medical Consultations (IRMC), Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, P.O. Box 1982, Dammam 31441, Saudi Arabia. iercan@iau.edu.sa.
⁸ Department of Nano-Medicine Research, Institute for Research & Medical Consultations (IRMC), Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, P.O. Box 1982, Dammam 31441, Saudi Arabia. abaykal@iau.edu.sa.
⁹ Scientific-Practical Materials Research Centre NAS of Belarus, 19 P. Brovki Street, 220072 Minsk, Belarus. truhanov86@mail.ru.
¹⁰ Department of Electronic Materials Technology, National University of Science and Technology MISiS, Leninsky Prospekt, 4, Moscow 119049, Russia. truhanov86@mail.ru.
¹¹ Laboratory of Crystal Growth, South Ural State University, Lenin Prospect, 76, Chelyabinsk 454080, Russia. truhanov86@mail.ru.

Abstract

This paper reports the influence of dysprosium ion (Dy³⁺) substitution on the structural and magnetic properties of NiDy_xFe_2-xO₄ (0.0 ≤ x ≤ 0.1) nanoparticles (NPs) prepared using a hydrothermal method. The structure and morphology of the as-synthesized NPs were characterized via X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning and transmission electron microscope (SEM, and TEM) analyses. ⁵⁷Fe Mössbauer spectra were recorded to determine the Dy³⁺ content dependent variation in the line width, isomer shift, quadrupole splitting, and hyperfine magnetic fields. Furthermore, the magnetic properties of the prepared NPs were also investigated by zero-field cooled (ZFC) and field cooled (FC) magnetizations and AC susceptibility measurements. The M_ZFC (T) results showed a blocking temperature (T_B). Below T_B, the products behave as ferromagnetic (FM) and act superparamagnetic (SPM) above T_B. The M_FC (T) curves indicated the existence of super-spin glass (SSG) behavior below T_s (spin-glass freezing temperature). The AC susceptibility measurements confirmed the existence of the two transition temperatures (i.e., T_B and T_s). Numerous models, e.g., Neel-Arrhenius (N-A), Vogel-Fulcher (V-F), and critical slowing down (CSD), were used to investigate the dynamics of the systems. It was found that the Dy substitution enhanced the magnetic interactions.

Keywords: AC susceptibility; NiFe2O4; magnetization; microstructure; spinel ferrites; structure.