Mn2+-Doped Fe3o4 Nanoparticles: A Novel Preparation Method, Structural, Magnetic and Electrochemical Characterizations Publisher



Aghazadeh M¹ ; Karimzadeh I² ; Ganjali MR^{3, 4} ; Behzad A¹
Source: Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics Published:2017

Abstract

A novel electrosynthesis procedure was applied to prepare manganese-doped iron oxide (Fe3O4) nanoparticles. The procedure involved depositing Fe3O4 nano-particles on a steel cathode from aqueous solution of (2 g/L) Fe(NO3)3, (1 g/L) FeCl2 and (0.3 g/L) MnCl2. Next the product was evaluated using X-ray diffraction (XRD), field emission electron microscopy (FE-SEM) and energy-dispersive X-ray (EDX). The final optimal product was found to contain 10 wt% of Mn2+ and the average size of the spherical Mn-Fe3O4 nano-particles was determined to be 20 nm. Further analysis of the produced particles using VSM proved it to have super-paramagnetic behavior (Ms = 47.25 emu g−1, Mr = 0.22 emu g−1, positive Mr = −0.703 emu g−1, negative Mr = −1.15 emu g−1, HCi = 4.84 G, positive HCi = 25.55 and negative HCi = 15.85 G). The nanoparticles were studied using electrochemical techniques of cyclic voltammetry, galvanostatic charge–discharge and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy, and it was found that the nanoparticles possess a specific capacitance value of 202.5 F g−1, and capacity maintain about 92.4% after 2000 cycles at 0.5 A g−1, which indicated the particles have excellent potential for use in supercapacitors. © 2017, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC.