Studying the Temperature Effect on the Magnetic Behavior of Fe₃O₄ Water Based Ferrofluid

Abstract:

In this study, Iron Oxide (Fe₃O₄) nanoparticles water based ferrofluid, was synthesized by co-precipitation method. XRD was used to study the structural characterization of the sample and to measure the size of the crystallites (using Scherrer equation). TEM was utilized to examine the shape, the size distribution and the morphology of the nanoparticles. VSM was carried out to measure the magnetic properties (like M_r, M_s and H_c) of the Fe₃O₄ (magnetite) nanoparticle and magnetite ferrofluid at 80 and 300 K. The results indicate that the average size of the magnetite roughly spherical shape nanoparticles is 13nm. The VSM results show that the magnetite ferrofluid contains single domain magnetic nanoparticles with superparamagnetic behavior. In addition, the magnetic measurements demonstrate that with decreasing the temperature of the ferrofluid, its magnetic softness decreases while its anisotropy increases.

• Periodical: Key Engineering Materials (Volume 744)
• Pages: 468-472
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.744.468
• Online since: July 2017
• Authors: Ahmad Amirabadizadeh*, Amir Zelati, Zahra Lotfollahi
• Keywords: Co-Precipitation Method, Magnetic Properties, Magnetite Ferrofluid, VSM

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