{"title":"Structure, Raman spectroscopy, and magnetic properties of new Al, Ga, and Mn-based high entropy oxides","authors":"Neha Sharma , Sushanta Mandal , Sourav Marik","doi":"10.1016/j.ceramint.2024.09.170","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Recent advancements in high entropy oxides (HEOs) have sparked significant interest as a promising frontier in materials research, revolutionizing the landscape of material design and properties. They exhibit outstanding stability, intriguing functional properties, and unparalleled design flexibility enabled by the inclusion of multiple cations in these materials. In this study, we successfully stabilized several new high entropy spinel oxides with compositions (Ni<sub>0.2</sub>(Mg/Mn)<sub>0.2</sub>Co<sub>0.2</sub>Cu<sub>0.2</sub>Zn<sub>0.2</sub>)B<span><math><msub><mrow></mrow><mrow><mn>2</mn></mrow></msub></math></span>O<span><math><msub><mrow></mrow><mrow><mn>4</mn></mrow></msub></math></span> (B = Al, Ga, Mn). The room temperature X-ray diffraction (RT-XRD), field emission scanning electron microscopy (FE-SEM), and energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS) measurements highlight the crystal structure of the materials with excellent chemical homogeneity at the micro-scale. RT-XRD and Raman spectroscopy confirmed the formation of single-phase cubic spinel structures. However, the Mn-based sample exhibited tetragonal distortion. Magnetic measurements show remarkable variation in the magnetic properties: (Ni<sub>0.2</sub>Mg<sub>0.2</sub>Co<sub>0.2</sub>Cu<sub>0.2</sub>Zn<sub>0.2</sub>)Mn<span><math><msub><mrow></mrow><mrow><mn>2</mn></mrow></msub></math></span>O<span><math><msub><mrow></mrow><mrow><mn>4</mn></mrow></msub></math></span> shows complex ferrimagnetic behavior, Al and Ga based diamond lattice (Ni<sub>0.2</sub>Mg<sub>0.2</sub>Co<sub>0.2</sub>Cu<sub>0.2</sub>Zn<sub>0.2</sub>)B<span><math><msub><mrow></mrow><mrow><mn>2</mn></mrow></msub></math></span>O<span><math><msub><mrow></mrow><mrow><mn>4</mn></mrow></msub></math></span> (B = Al and Ga) materials revealed extremely high magnetic frustration and absence of magnetic ordering down to 1.8 K, indicative of exotic frustrated state. Magnetic transitions (spin-glass like) are observed in (Ni<sub>0.2</sub>Mn<sub>0.2</sub>Co<sub>0.2</sub>Cu<sub>0.2</sub>Zn<sub>0.2</sub>)B<span><math><msub><mrow></mrow><mrow><mn>2</mn></mrow></msub></math></span>O<span><math><msub><mrow></mrow><mrow><mn>4</mn></mrow></msub></math></span> (B = Al and Ga) materials. Our study highlights the potential to finely tune the magnetic responses through compositional engineering, thus paving the way for the development of tailored magnetic materials for various applications.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":267,"journal":{"name":"Ceramics International","volume":"50 22","pages":"Pages 48200-48209"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1000,"publicationDate":"2024-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Ceramics International","FirstCategoryId":"88","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0272884224041749","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"MATERIALS SCIENCE, CERAMICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Recent advancements in high entropy oxides (HEOs) have sparked significant interest as a promising frontier in materials research, revolutionizing the landscape of material design and properties. They exhibit outstanding stability, intriguing functional properties, and unparalleled design flexibility enabled by the inclusion of multiple cations in these materials. In this study, we successfully stabilized several new high entropy spinel oxides with compositions (Ni0.2(Mg/Mn)0.2Co0.2Cu0.2Zn0.2)BO (B = Al, Ga, Mn). The room temperature X-ray diffraction (RT-XRD), field emission scanning electron microscopy (FE-SEM), and energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS) measurements highlight the crystal structure of the materials with excellent chemical homogeneity at the micro-scale. RT-XRD and Raman spectroscopy confirmed the formation of single-phase cubic spinel structures. However, the Mn-based sample exhibited tetragonal distortion. Magnetic measurements show remarkable variation in the magnetic properties: (Ni0.2Mg0.2Co0.2Cu0.2Zn0.2)MnO shows complex ferrimagnetic behavior, Al and Ga based diamond lattice (Ni0.2Mg0.2Co0.2Cu0.2Zn0.2)BO (B = Al and Ga) materials revealed extremely high magnetic frustration and absence of magnetic ordering down to 1.8 K, indicative of exotic frustrated state. Magnetic transitions (spin-glass like) are observed in (Ni0.2Mn0.2Co0.2Cu0.2Zn0.2)BO (B = Al and Ga) materials. Our study highlights the potential to finely tune the magnetic responses through compositional engineering, thus paving the way for the development of tailored magnetic materials for various applications.
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Ceramics International covers the science of advanced ceramic materials. The journal encourages contributions that demonstrate how an understanding of the basic chemical and physical phenomena may direct materials design and stimulate ideas for new or improved processing techniques, in order to obtain materials with desired structural features and properties.
Ceramics International covers oxide and non-oxide ceramics, functional glasses, glass ceramics, amorphous inorganic non-metallic materials (and their combinations with metal and organic materials), in the form of particulates, dense or porous bodies, thin/thick films and laminated, graded and composite structures. Process related topics such as ceramic-ceramic joints or joining ceramics with dissimilar materials, as well as surface finishing and conditioning are also covered. Besides traditional processing techniques, manufacturing routes of interest include innovative procedures benefiting from externally applied stresses, electromagnetic fields and energetic beams, as well as top-down and self-assembly nanotechnology approaches. In addition, the journal welcomes submissions on bio-inspired and bio-enabled materials designs, experimentally validated multi scale modelling and simulation for materials design, and the use of the most advanced chemical and physical characterization techniques of structure, properties and behaviour.
Technologically relevant low-dimensional systems are a particular focus of Ceramics International. These include 0, 1 and 2-D nanomaterials (also covering CNTs, graphene and related materials, and diamond-like carbons), their nanocomposites, as well as nano-hybrids and hierarchical multifunctional nanostructures that might integrate molecular, biological and electronic components.