Ordered Nanoporous Silica Modified with Nanoparticles of Lanthanide Oxides
A. Zeleňákováa, O. Kapusta b, V. Zeleňákb
aInstitute of Physics, Faculty of Sciences, P.J. Šafárik University, Park Angelinum 9, 041 54 Košice, Slovakia
bInstitute of Chemistry, Faculty of Sciences, P.J. Šafárik University, Moyzesova 11, 041 54 Košice, Slovakia
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Lanthanide oxide nanoparticles were encapsulated inside of pores of highly ordered periodic silica of SBA15 type with hexagonal symmetry. The magnetic properties of such nanoperticles were investigated. The structural characterization using the SAXS, XANES, XRD, and N2 adsorption measurements showed the presence of lanthanide oxides of Ln2O3 type (Ln=La, Pr, Nd, Gd, Eu), with the size of about 5 nm, incorporated in nanoporous channel system. Their magnetic properties, studied by SQUID apparatus, showed the weak antiferromagnetic ordering at 2 K in the nanocomposites Gd2O3@SBA15, Pr2O3@SBA15 and Nd2O3@SBA15. This behaviour of the nanoparticles is caused by blocking process of magnetic moments, which at 300 K exhibit the superparamagnetism, evidenced from ZFC/FC magnetization.

DOI: 10.12693/APhysPolA.126.218
PACS numbers: 75.75.Fk, 81.05.Rm, 75.40.Cx