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Dotierte BiFeO3 Nanopartikel

Fachliche Zuordnung Herstellung und Eigenschaften von Funktionsmaterialien
Förderung Förderung von 2018 bis 2021
Projektkennung Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Projektnummer 396469149
 
Erstellungsjahr 2023

Zusammenfassung der Projektergebnisse

Bismuth ferrite is a classical ferroelectric material which additionally undergoes a magnetic phase transition into an antiferroelectric state. In the latter, the spins of the system order antiparallel, but maintain a small tilt angle. The resulting residual magnetic moment additionally orders in the so-called spin cycloid. Globally no magnetic moment develops, because the cycloid also cancels the residual magnetic moments at larger scale. Bismuth ferrite is also a semiconductor of intermediate band gap. Many interesting technological applications have been envisaged for this system, in particular the option to generate a magnetoelectric material, if one manages to break the cancelling of the magnetic moments in the cycloid. The goal is a magnetoelectric computer memory material. Our project was designed around a pre-selection of chemically suitable dopants of BiFeO3 which would be capable of enhancing certain properties of the material. In particular, the effect of small grain sized powders on the ferroelectric properties was to be determined along with manganese as magnetic dopant and barium replacing Bi on the A-site of the crystal lattice for tailoring the lattice constant and thus modifying the magnetic coupling between adjacent iron spins. To our own surprise, of the nine work packages which we promised (one was optional), eight were fully successful. Only the decoration of BiFeO3 particles with other magnetic particles exceeded the time limits of the project. We achieved very good hyperthermia performance of the particles and outstanding photocatalytic performance. Eight papers are published, seven more are in the different stages of finalization and will be published within this year (2023).

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