Al and PEG Effect on Structural and Physicochemical Properties of CoFe2O4

In this work, pure and Alumina doped cobalt ferrite nanoparticles CoFe2-xAlxO4 (for x = 0.44) have been synthesized by the sol gel method. The influence of alumina doping on the morphological and mechanical properties of CoFe2O4 nano-particles were investigated by means of X-ray powder diffraction (XRD) and rietveld analysis. XRD analysis confirmed that the single phase formation of pure nano particles with the expected cubic inverse spinel structure with Fd3m space group and without any impurity phase. Alumina doping were led to a decrease in the crystallite size, lattice parameter, elastic constants and magnitude of moduli. It is explained on the basis of the replacement of Fe ions with half-filled d-shell (3d(5)) and larger radius by Al3+ ions with a completely filled shell (2p(6)) and smaller radius.