Author:
Savchenko D.V., ,Memon V.S.,Vasin A.V.,Kysil D.V.,Rusavsky A.V.,Kuz O.P.,Gareeva F.M.,Kalabukhova E.N., , , , , , , , ,
Abstract
Silica-carbon with zinc (SiO2:C:Zn) nanocomposites obtained via infiltration with aged luminescent zinc acetylacetonate (Zn(acac)2) ethanol solution of two concentrations (1 or 4%) into the fumed silica (SiO2) matrix have been studied using EPR within the temperature range 6…296 K before and after thermal annealing. The EPR spectrum of SiO2:C:Zn nanocomposites consists of three signals with the Lorentzian lineshape corresponding to paramagnetic centers with S = 1/2, which are related to carbon dangling bonds (CDB) (g = 2.0029(3)), silicon dangling bonds (g = 2.0062(3)) and oxygen-centered carbon-related radicals (CRR) (g = 2.0042(3)). A small EPR linewidth (<1 mT) observed for CDB and oxygen-centered CRR allows us to conclude that they are in the sp3-hybridized state. It was found that the temperature dependence of the EPR signal integrated intensity of the CDB and oxygen-centered CRR follows the Curie–Weiss law with a small positive value of the Curie–Weiss constant, which indicates that the weak ferromagnetic exchange interaction takes place in the spin system of CDB and oxygen-centered CRR. It was supposed that the carbon-related centers are clustered in SiO2:C:Zn nanocomposites. We assume that the oxygen-centered CRR in the sp3-hybridized state are associated with luminescent centers in previously reported aged Zn(acac)2/C2H5OH solution.
Publisher
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Co. LTD Ukrinformnauka)
Subject
Electrical and Electronic Engineering,Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics,Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
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