Microwave Synthesis of Nickel Ferrite: Structure, Morphology and Bonding

A. M. Bhavikatti¹, Subhash Kulkarni² and Arun Kumar Lagashetty³*

¹Rural Engineering College Bhalki, Bidar (India)

²Jayaprakash Narayan College of Engineering, Mehaboobnagar (India)

³Appa Institute of Engineering and Technology, Gulbarga (India)

DOI : http://dx.doi.org/10.13005/msri/040228

ABSTRACT:

Microwave synthesis of ferrite materials integrates the synthetic technology for information storage materials. Microwave route is adopted for the synthesis of nanosized NiFe2O4 using urea as a fuel. Nickel oxalates and iron oxalates were prepared by dissolving nickel and iron salt in oxalic acid solution. These two oxalates are irradiated with microwaves using urea as a fuel to get cubic NiFe2O4 particles. The structure of the prepared sample is studied by X-ray diffraction (XRD) which shows crystalline cubic structure, Morphology of the sample is viewed by Scanning electron micrograph (SEM) which shows spherical particles with compact and globular arrangement. Metal-Oxygen and metal-metal bonding is studied by infrared (IR) technique.

KEYWORDS: Microwave synthesis; Morphology; NiFe2O4; Oxalate; bonding

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