Synthesis, textural and magnetic properties of doped and undoped CuO nanoparticles

abstract

We have fabricated undoped CuO, Co_0.1Ni_0.07Zn_0.04Cu_0.79O and Co_0.08Ni_0.07Zn_0.04Mg_0.03Cu_0.78O nanoparticles through thermal decomposition of their respective inorganic copper creatinate hydrazinate and mixed metal doped copper creatinate hydrazinate precursors which were prepared by the co-precipitation method and characterized through EDS, ICP-AES, IR, and TG-DTA analysis. Techniques such as EDS, ICP-AES, FT-IR, XRD, XPS, TEM, SEM, BET, and VSM analysis were employed to characterize the composition, structural phase, chemical state, morphological, textural, and magnetic properties of the nanoparticles.

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Keywords:

• Creatinate
• hydrazinate
• co-precipitation
• textural
• magnetic

Acknowledgments

The authors express their immense thanks to Kongunadu Arts and Science College for providing facilities. Authors are also thankful to P.S.G Arts and Science College (Coimbatore), CIT (Coimbatore), SAIF (Cochin), IIT (Madras), Karunya University (Coimbatore), Amrita Centre for Nanosciences and Molecular Medicine (AIMS, Cochin), BIT University (Bangalore) for providing instrument facilities.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.