Microstructural and Magnetic Properties of Ni Doped MgFe2O4 Nanoparticles

Synthesized by Coprecipitation Method

Rachmad Almi Putra 1, Edy Suharyadi1*, Takeshi Kato2, and Satoshi Iwata3
1

Department of Physics, Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

Department of Electrical Enginering and Computer Science, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
3
Institute of Materials and Systems for Sustainability, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan

*Corresponding author: esuharyadi@ugm.ac.id

Abstrak
The Mg1-xNixFe2O4 nanoparticles have been successfully synthesized by coprecipitation
method at temperature of 90oC with various x = 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6, 0.7, 0.8. The addition of
Ni content into MgFe2O4 gives significant effect to the average grain size, lattice parameter
and magnetization of nanoparticles. The grain size increase as the increase of Ni content. The
values varie from 8.6 to 10.4 nm. The lattice parameter decrease as Ni content increase which
values varie from 8.53 to 8.58 for Ni2+rich and 8.51 to 8.53 for Mg2+rich. The
Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) image showed that nanoparticles are polydisperse
which morphology is not perfectly spherical. The average grain size was 5.9 nm. The Infra-red
spectra confirmed the presence of five absorption peaks in the frequency range of 400 4000
cm-1 , which is due to the tetrahedral (A) and octahedral (B) stretching vibration. Through
magnetic measurement conducted by a Vibrating Sampel Magnetometer (VSM) revealed that
samples are ferrimagnetics. The maximum magnetization appers in sampel Mg0.8Ni0.2Fe2O4 of
16.9 emu/g. The magnetization decreases with increasing Ni content and the presence of Fe2O3 phase. The coercivity increases from 22.7 to 36.4 Oe with increasing Ni content, which
is due to increasing grain size of nanoparticles. The result revealed that the magnetic properties
and microstructure of nanoparticles strongly depend on cations composition, their distribution
in crystal lattice, and the presence impurity phases in sample nanoparticles.