Microwave Assisted Synthesis of CoFe2O4 Nanoparticles by Utilizing Organic Promoters and Evaluation of Its Properties

Abstract

Nano-sized spinel ferrites are highly regarded owing to their special optical, electrical, and magnetic properties. Cobalt ferrite (CoFe2O4) is a nominee of particular interest due to its high saturation magnetization, high coercivity, strong anisotropy, and excellent chemical stability. The synthesis of these materials with a pure crystalline phase is sometimes limited due to the required high temperatures for their calcination. In this work, we report a one-pot simple synthesis procedure of cobalt ferrite by the auto-combustion under microwave irradiation into a domestic microwave oven with a power of 900 W for 30 min. Glycine and ammonium nitrate were used as organic promoters and metal nitrates as precursors. The synthesized nanoparticles were characterized by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), and energy dispersion of X-ray spectrometry (EDX) techniques. The electrochemical properties and capability of the prepared product as a pseudocapacitive material were evaluated using cyclic voltammetry (CV) tests in details.