Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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10636879 | Solid State Sciences | 2005 | 5 Pages |
Abstract
Copper oxide nanoparticles were synthesized by water-in-oil microemulsions with two different apolar solvents (isooctane and n-octane). Our studies on the samples show that the grain size is highly dependent on the nature of non-polar solvent, 25-30 and 80-90 nm sized nanoparticles with isooctane and n-octane, respectively. The Neel temperature of CuO nanoparticles obtained from isooctane is about 80 K. For the larger particles obtained from n-octane, the transition temperature shifts to higher temperature (â¼220K) near that of the bulk.
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Authors
T. Ahmad, R. Chopra, K.V. Ramanujachary, S.E. Lofland, A.K. Ganguli,