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Record W4410069505 · doi:10.3390/appliedchem5020009

Exploring the Roles of Chelating/Fuel Agents in Shaping the Properties of Copper Ferrites

2025· article· en· W4410069505 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueAppliedChem · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMaterials Science
TopicMagnetic Properties and Synthesis of Ferrites
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Alberta
Fundersnot available
KeywordsCopperChelationMaterials scienceMetallurgy

Abstract

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In this study, copper ferrite nanoparticles, a type of ferrimagnetic spinel ferrite, were synthesized using the sol-gel auto-combustion method with three different fuels: citric acid, urea, and ethylene glycol. The crystal structures of the synthesized samples were analyzed using X-ray diffraction (XRD), and the growth of secondary phases like Fe2O3 and CuO for samples prepared with urea and ethylene glycol indicated the presence of impurities. Additionally, we observed that the particle size varied significantly with the type of fuel, being the smallest for citric acid and the largest for urea. The electrical and magnetic properties showed strong correlations with the particle size and the presence of impurities. In particular, the optical band gap values, derived from UV-Vis spectroscopy, varied significantly with the choice of fuel, ranging from 2.06 to 3.75 eV. The highest band gap of 3.75 eV was observed in samples synthesized with citric acid. Magnetic properties were measured using a vibrating sample magnetometer (VSM), and it was found that the copper ferrite synthesized with citric acid exhibited the highest values of magnetic saturation and coercivity. These findings demonstrate that the choice of fuel during the synthesis process has substantial impacts on the structural, optical, and magnetic properties of CuFe2O4 nanoparticles.

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metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.011
Threshold uncertainty score0.236

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Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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Opus teacher head0.147
GPT teacher head0.263
Teacher spread0.116 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it