rastgoo oskoui P, rezvani M, kianvash A. Effect of Heat-Treatment Temperatures on Magnetite Oxidation in
20SiO2.50FeO.30CaO Glass Ceramic Prepared by the Sol-Gel Method. IJMSE 2023; 20 (2) :1-11 URL: http://ijmse.iust.ac.ir/article-1-3238-en.html
Abstract The effect of different heat-treatment temperatures on the magnetic, crystallization, and structural properties of 20SiO2.50FeO.30CaO(mol%) glass ceramics was studied. The initial glass was synthesized by the sol-gel method at 25℃ with a precursors to solvent ratio of 1/5. After aging the resulted gel for 24 h at room temperature, it was dried in an electric dryer at 110 ℃. By heat treatment at different temperatures, different phases such as magnetite, maghemite, and hematite were crystallized in the glass. The maximum stability temperature of magnetite and maghemite were 360℃ and 440℃ respectively. By increasing the heat treatment temperature to higher than 440℃, the oxidation of maghemite to hematite was occureds. The highest magnetization amount (1.9 emu/g) belonged to sample heat treated at 680℃. By increasing the heat treatment temperature to 840℃, the magnetization decreased to 0.8 emu/g, due to the oxidation of maghemite. By increasing the heat treatment temperature from 440℃ to 680℃, crystalline size of maghemite was increased from 40 to 200 nm. By forther increment of temperature to 840℃, the size of maghemite crystals decreased to 17nm, due to the oxidation of maghemite to hematite. Abstract The effect of different heat-treatment temperatures on the magnetic, crystallization, and structural properties of 20SiO2.50FeO.30CaO(mol%) glass ceramics was studied. The initial glass was synthesized by the sol-gel method at 25℃ with a precursors to solvent ratio of 1/5. After aging the resulted gel for 24 h at room temperature, it was dried in an electric dryer at 110 ℃. By heat treatment at different temperatures, different phases such as magnetite, maghemite, and hematite were crystallized in the glass. The maximum stability temperature of magnetite and maghemite were 360℃ and 440℃ respectively. By increasing the heat treatment temperature to higher than 440℃, the oxidation of maghemite to hematite was occureds. The highest magnetization amount (1.9 emu/g) belonged to sample heat treated at 680℃. By increasing the heat treatment temperature to 840℃, the magnetization decreased to 0.8 emu/g, due to the oxidation of maghemite. By increasing the heat treatment temperature from 440℃ to 680℃, crystalline size of maghemite was increased from 40 to 200 nm. By forther increment of temperature to 840℃, the size of maghemite crystals decreased to 17nm, due to the oxidation of maghemite to hematite.
Heat-treatment temperatures have an important effect on the magnetic properties of glass-ceramics.
The maximum stability temperature of maghemite is 440℃ and the oxidation of maghemite starts with increasing heat-treatment temperature.
The maximum amount of saturation magnetization and the area of the hysteresis loop corresponding to the treated sample was obtained at 680℃.
By increasing the heat-treatment temperature up to 680℃, the size of maghemite crystals increased and at higher temperatures due to the oxidation of this phase, the size of maghemite crystals decreased.
Depending on the different treatment temperatures, maghemite crystallizes with a different crystal structure in glass-ceramic.