赤铁矿
晶格常数
材料科学
结晶学
粉末衍射
结晶度
纳米颗粒
化学
衍射
纳米技术
光学
物理
冶金
作者
Siyang Xu,Ashfaque H. Habib,S. H. Gee,Yang‐Ki Hong,Michael E. McHenry
摘要
Monodisperse hematite (α-Fe2O3) nanoparticles were synthesized by forced hydrolysis of acidic Fe3+ solution. Rietveld analysis was applied to the X-ray powder diffraction data to refine the lattice constants and atomic positions. The lattice constants for a hexagonal unit cell were determined to be a ∼ 0.50327 and c ∼ 1.37521 nm. High resolution transmission electron microscopy was employed to study the morphology of the particles. Atomic scale micrographs and diffraction patterns from several zone axes were obtained. These reveal the high degree of crystallinity of the particles. A series of observations made on the particles by tilting them through a range of ±45° revealed the particles to be micaceous with stacking of platelets with well defined crystallographic orientations. The Morin transition in these nanoparticles was found to occur at 210 K, which is lower temperature than 263 K of bulk hematite. It was ascertained from the previous Mössbauer studies that the spin orientation for nano-sized hematite particle flips from 90° to 28° with respect to the c-axis of the hexagonal structure during the Morin transition, which is in contrast to that observed in bulk hematite where spin orientation flips from 90° to 0°.
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