• 文献标题:   Nanomagnets La0.8Pb0.2(Fe0.8Co0.2)O-3 Assembled with a Bonded Surface Graphene Oxide: Sensitive for Sensing Small Gas Molecules
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   BHARGAV KK, RAM S, MAJUMDER SB
  • 作者关键词:   magnetic propertie, nanocrystalline material, microstructure, graphene bonded magnet, gas sensor
  • 出版物名称:   JOURNAL OF NANOSCIENCE NANOTECHNOLOGY
  • ISSN:   1533-4880 EI 1533-4899
  • 通讯作者地址:   Indian Inst Technol
  • 被引频次:   2
  • DOI:   10.1166/jnn.2012.5819
  • 出版年:   2012

▎ 摘  要

Nanocrystallites La0.8Pb0.2(Fe0.8Co0.2)O-3 (LPFC) when bonded through a surface layer (carbon) in small ensembles display surface sensitive magnetism useful for biological probes, electrodes, and toxic gas sensors. A simple dispersion and hydrolysis of the salts in ethylene glycol (EG) in water is explored to form ensembles of the nanocrystallites (NCs) by combustion of a liquid precursor gel slowly in microwave at 70-80 degrees C (apparent) in a closed container in air. In a dilute sample, the EG molecules mediate hydrolyzed species to configure in small groups in process to form a gel. Proposed models describe how a residual carbon bridges a stable bonded layer of a graphene-oxide-like hybrid structure on the LPFC-NCs in attenuating the magnetic structure. SEM images, measured from a pelletized sample which was used to study the gas sensing features in terms of the electrical resistance, describe plate shaped NCs, typically 30-60 nm widths, 60-180 nm lengths and similar to 50 m(2)/g surface area (after heating at similar to 750 degrees C). These NCs are arranged in ensembles (200-900 nm size). As per the X-ray diffraction, the plates (a Pnma orthorhombic structure) bear only small strain similar to 0.0023 N/m(2) and oxygen vacancies. The phonon and electronic bands from a bonded surface layer disappear when it is etched out slowly by heating above 550 degrees C in air. The surface layer actively promotes selective H-2 gas sensor properties.