Dynamic shock wave driven simultaneous crystallographic and molecular switching between α-Fe2O3 and Fe3O4 nanoparticles

Dynamic shock wave driven simultaneous crystallographic and molecular switching between α-Fe₂O₃ and Fe₃O₄ nanoparticles – a new finding

Published:2022 Issue:23 Volume:51 Page:9159-9166
ISSN:1477-9226
Container-title:Dalton Transactions
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Author:

Sivakumar A.¹,Rita A.¹,Sahaya Jude Dhas S.²,Reddy K. P. J.³,Kumar Raju Suresh⁴^ORCID,Almansour Abdulrahman I.⁴,Chakraborty Shubhadip⁵^ORCID,Moovendaran K.⁶,Sridhar Jayavel⁷,Martin Britto Dhas S. A.¹^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Shock Wave Research Laboratory, Department of Physics, Abdul Kalam Research Center, Sacred Heart College, Tirupattur, Vellore 635601, Tamil Nadu, India

2. Department of Physics, Kings Engineering College, Sriperumbudur, Chennai 602117, Tamil Nadu, India

3. Department of Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, Karnataka, India

4. Department of Chemistry, College of Science, King Saud University, PO Box 2455, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia

5. Institut de Physique de Rennes, UMR CNRS 6251, Université de Rennes 1, 35042 Rennes, Cedex, France

6. Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529, Taiwan

7. Department of Biotechnology (DDE), Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai 625021, Tamil Nadu, India

Abstract

We present the experimentally observed solid-state molecular level switchable phase transitions of nanocrystalline iron oxide materials {α-Fe2O3 (R-3c) to Fe3O4 (Fd-3m) and Fe3O4 (Fd-3m) to α-Fe2O3 (R-3c)} under dynamic shock wave loaded conditions.

Funder

Department of Science and Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology, India

King Saud University

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Subject

Inorganic Chemistry

Link

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2022/DT/D2DT01101H

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