Avrami behavior of magnetite nanoparticles formation in co-precipitation process
Author(s) -
Reza Ahmadi,
Hamid Reza Madaah Hosseini,
Afshin Masoudi
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
journal of mining and metallurgy section b metallurgy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.42
H-Index - 20
eISSN - 2217-7175
pISSN - 1450-5339
DOI - 10.2298/jmmb110330010a
Subject(s) - coprecipitation , nucleation , magnetite , nanoparticle , materials science , transmission electron microscopy , chemical engineering , precipitation , avrami equation , kinetics , characterization (materials science) , analytical chemistry (journal) , nanotechnology , chemistry , metallurgy , chromatography , organic chemistry , physics , crystallization of polymers , quantum mechanics , meteorology , engineering
In this work, magnetite nanoparticles (mean particle size about 20 nm) were synthesized via coprecipitation method. In order to investigate the kinetics of nanoparticle formation, variation in the amount of reactants within the process was measured using pH-meter and atomic absorption spectroscopy (AAS) instruments. Results show that nanoparticle formation behavior can be described by Avrami equations. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and X-ray diffraction (XRD) were performed to study the chemical and morphological characterization of nanoparticles. Some simplifying assumptions were employed for estimating the nucleation and growth rate of magnetite nanoparticles
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