Structural characterization and magnetic properties of undoped and copper-doped cobalt ferrite nanoparticles prepared by the octanoate coprecipitation route at very low dopant concentrations

• DOI: 10.1039/c8ra08532c
• Publication Date: 2018-11-16T09:48:17Z
• Authors: Hypolite Mathias ...; Patrice Kenfack T...; Roussin Lontio Fo...; Ekane Peter Etape; Pattayil A. Joy; Arnaud Delcorte; John Ngolui Lambi
• Keywords: Chemistry; Hochtemperatur-und Funktionsschutzschichten; copper-doped cobalt ferrite; General Chemical Engineering; nanoparticles; octanoate; co-precipitation; magnetic properties; General Chemistry; 02 engineering and technology; 0210 nano-technology

Low level copper-doped CoFe2O4 has been synthesized and shows an increasing of saturation magnetization up to 6% Cu, subsequently decreasing above 6%.