Title
Probing the Defect-Induced Magnetocaloric Effect on Ferrite/Graphene Functional Nanocomposites and their Magnetic Hyperthermia
Date Issued
24 October 2019
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Prabhakaran T.
Udayabhaskar R.
Mangalaraja R.V.
Sahlevani S.F.
Freire R.M.
Denardin J.C.
Béron F.
Gracia-Pinilla M.A.
Vinicius-Araújo M.
Bakuzis A.F.
Centro de Investigación de Polímeros Avanzados
Publisher(s)
American Chemical Society
Abstract
Recently, the development of an alternative magnetic refrigerant for the conventional fossil fuels attracts the researchers. We discussed the structural defect-induced magnetocaloric effect (MCE) in Ni0.3Zn0.7Fe2O4/graphene (NZF/G) nanocomposites for the first time. Single-phase spinel ferrite nanocomposites with an average size of 7-11.4 nm were achieved by using the microwave-assisted coprecipitation method. The effect of graphene loading on the structural and magnetism of NZF/G nanocomposites was elaborated. Raman analysis proved that the interface interaction between NZF and graphene yielded different densities of structural defects. In view of magnetism, superparamagnetic NZF nanoparticles showed a magnetic entropy change (-Î"SMmax) of-0.678 Jkg-1 K-1 at 135 K, whereas the NZF/G nanocomposites exhibited superior-Î"SMmax at cryogenic temperatures and the defect-induced MCE change was indeed similar to the ID/IG intensity ratio. The nanocomposites exhibited different magnetic orderings between 5 and 295 K, and it was varying for ID/IG, 1.83 > 1.68 > 1.57 as antiferromagnetic (AFM) > AFM/ferrimagnetic (FiM) > FiM, respectively. Till now, NZF/G nanocomposites showed an inverse MCE of 4.378 Jkg-1 K-1 at 35 K and a refrigerant capacity of 88 Jkg-1 for 40 kOe, which was greater than the ferrites reported so far. Finally, MCE and magnetic hyperthermia were correlated at ambient conditions. These results pave the way for ferrite/graphene nanocomposites for cooling applications.
Start page
25844
End page
25855
Volume
123
Issue
42
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Química física
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85073453711
Source
Journal of Physical Chemistry C
ISSN of the container
1932-7447
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