Correlating size and composition-dependent effects with magnetic, Mössbauer, and pair distribution function measurements in a family of catalytically active ferrite nanoparticles

Chemistry of Materials

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 3572-3592

  Tiano, Amanda L ^a   Papaefthymiou, Georgia C ^b,c   Lewis, Crystal S ^a   Han, Jinkyu ^d   Zhang, Cheng ^d   Li, Qiang ^d   Shi, Chenyang ^e   Abeykoon, A M Milinda ^f   Billinge, Simon J L ^d,e   Stach, Eric ^f   Thomas, Justin ^a   Guerrero, Kevin ^a   Munayco, Pablo ^c   Munayco, Jimmy ^c   Scorzelli, Rosa B ^c   Burnham, Philip ^b   Viescas, Arthur J ^b   Wong, Stanislaus S ^a,d  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CENTRO BRASILEIRO DE PESQUISAS FÍSICAS   (Brazil)

^d BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^f BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPPER; FERRITE; FERRITES; GYRATORS; HYDROTHERMAL SYNTHESIS; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; MAGNETISM; MANGANESE; METAL IONS; METAL NANOPARTICLES; METALS; NANOMAGNETICS; NANOPARTICLES; NICKEL; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; PHOTOCATALYSTS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); ZINC;

ATOMIC PAIR DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; BIOLOGICAL CATALYSTS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; ELECTRON POWDER DIFFRACTION; FERRITE NANOPARTICLES; HYDROTHERMAL METHODS; PAIR DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; SSBAUER SPECTROSCOPIES;

DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS;

EID: 84930225825     PISSN: 08974756     EISSN: 15205002     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.5b00767     Document Type: Article

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