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Effect of Mn–Nd co-doping on structure, magnetism, and electrochemistry of cobalt ferrite

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Cobalt ferrite nanoparticles co-doped with Mn–Nd elements were fabricated by easy co-precipitation, in which the Mn content was fixed to 0.2 and only the Nd content was changed, and the caused changes of structure, magnetism, and electrochemistry of cobalt ferrite were explored using XRD, SEM, FTIR, VSM, LSV, and EIS methods. The results indicated that the spinel structure and the spherical morphology of cobalt ferrite are not changed after Mn–Nd co-doping, while some microscopic parameters such as lattice constant, crystallite size, and particle size have some changes. Co-doping and the subsequent changes of microscopic parameters significantly enhance the integrated magnetism of cobalt ferrite. An increase of Nd content leads to a monotonically increase in the coercivity, while the saturation magnetization reaches its optimum when Nd content is 0.05. This sample also has the largest maximum magnetic energy product in all samples. Electrochemical analysis showed that co-doping of Mn–Nd can also enhance the oxygen evolution reaction performance of cobalt ferrite nanoparticles. The improvement of the related performance demonstrates that the Mn–Nd co-doping is a very useful way of enhancing the integrated magnetism of cobalt ferrite accompanied by the enhancement of electrochemical properties, which supply a good direction for the following research of cobalt ferrite as a multifunctional material.

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This work was supported by the National Key R&D Program of China (Grant No. 2022YFB3505301)

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    Xiufang Qin, Hui Zhang, Fang Wang, Yuanli Ma & Xiaohong Xu

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Qin, X., Zhang, H., Wang, F. et al. Effect of Mn–Nd co-doping on structure, magnetism, and electrochemistry of cobalt ferrite. J Mater Sci 59, 10182–10192 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10853-024-09797-w

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