Determination of the Recoilless Fraction in Iron Oxide Nanoparticles Using the Two-lattice Method

We propose a two-lattice method for direct determination of the recoilless fraction using a single room-temperature transmission Mössbauer measurement. The method is first demonstrated for the case of iron and metallic glass two-foil system and is next generalized for the case of physical mixtures of two powders. We further apply this method to determine the recoilless fraction of hematite and magnetite particles. Finally, we provide direct measurement of the recoilless fraction in nanohematite and nanomagnetite with an average particle size of 19nm. A list of values obtained for the recoilless fraction in various materials using the two-lattice method is given.     

均匀α-氧化铁纳米粒子的制备及表征

纳米粒子的制备已成为当今的研究热点，而α－氧化铁纳米粒子由于其独特的性能与广泛的应用，引起了多方面的关注。分别采用均匀沉淀法和强迫水解法来制备氧化铁纳米粒子，用XRD谱图和TEM电镜进行表征，并探讨了这两种制备方法及反应温度、反应时间等对产率及晶体粒度的影响。     

Complexes of Fulvic Acid on Hematite Interfaces: Characterization and Photochemical Properties

Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), combined with ultraviolet-visible spectroscopy (UV-Vis) and transmission electron micrograph (TEM), has been used to observe the interaction between fulvic acid (FA) and hematite. The FTIR data have shown that the interaction mechanism corresponds mainly to the ligand-exchange involving carboxylic functional groups of the FA and hematite surface sites. The general trends included an increase in the content of Fe(III)-humate complexes on hematite surfaces accompanied by a decrease in pH and an increasing in the ionic strength. Both UV-Vis spectroscopy and TEM images have shown that hematite can interplay with FA under acidic conditions. In particular, the TEM images have shown that the presence of FA can significantly alter the characteristics of the hematite surfaces. Photochemical experiments have shown that hematite promotes the phototransformation of lindane (-HCH), whereas the presence of FA adversely affects the phototransformation of the target pollutant. The hematite coated with FA displayed a somewhat better catalyzing capability compared to the hematite only.     

Effect of zinc on the catalytic activity of hematite in ethylbenzene dehydrogenation

The effect of zinc on the performance of hematite-based catalysts in ethylbenzene dehydrogenation was studied. Zinc acts as a structural promoter stabilizing the active phase of the catalysts. This revised version was published online in June 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

东鞍山贫铁矿石磁选预富集行为

针对东鞍山贫铁矿石(Fe质量分数34.60%)中含有赤铁矿、磁铁矿和少量的菱铁矿,提出了一种弱磁粗选-高梯度扫选的预富集工艺,并借助XRD、铁的化学物相分析及扫描电镜(SEM)考察了磁场强度和原料磨矿细度对东鞍山铁矿石预富集行为的影响.结果表明,在磨矿细度-0.074mm占70%(质量分数)、弱磁粗选磁场强度120mT、高梯度扫选Ⅰ磁场强度300mT及高梯度扫选Ⅱ磁场强度800mT的条件下,可获得Fe质量分数42.67%、回收率95.45%的预富集精矿;磁铁矿富集于弱磁粗选作业中,赤铁矿和菱铁矿在高梯度扫选作业中得到有效富集,尾矿中丢失的铁矿物主要为微细粒赤铁矿(＜10μm),由于受到的磁性捕获力弱而无法得到回收.     

Precipitation of hematite nanoparticles via reverse microemulsion process

Hematite nanoparticles have been successfully synthesized via two processing routes:(i) conventional precipitation route and (ii) reverse microemulsion route.The particle precipitation was carried out in a semibatch reactor.A microemulsion system consisting of water,chloroform,1-butanol and surfactant was loaded with iron nitrates to form iron nanoparticles precipitation.The precipitation was performed in the single-phase microemulsion operating region.Three technical surfactants,with different structure and HLB value are employed.The influence of surfactant characterization on the size of produced iron oxide particle has been studied to gain a deeper understanding of the important controlling mechanisms in the formation of nanoparticles in a microemulsion.Transmission electron microscopy (TEM),surface area,pore volume,average pore diameter,pore size distribution and XRD were used to analyze the size,size distribution,shape and structure of precipitated iron nanoparticles.     

Brownian dynamics simulations with spin Brownian motion on the negative magneto-rheological effect of a rod-like hematite particle suspension

We have investigated the behaviour of a suspension of magnetic rod-like hematite particles in a simple shear flow with the addition of an applied magnetic field. A significant feature of the present hematite particle suspension is the fact that the magnetic moment of the hematite particle lies normal to the particle-axis direction. From simulations, we have attempted to clarify the dependence of the negative magneto-rheological effect on the particle aggregation and orientational distribution of particles. The present Brownian dynamics method has a significant advantage in that it takes into account the spin rotational Brownian motion about the particle axis in addition to the ordinary translational and rotational Brownian motion. The net viscosity is decomposed into three components and discussed at a deeper level and in detail: these three viscosity components arise from (1) the torque due to the magnetic particle–field interaction, (2) the torque and (3) the force due to the interaction between particles. It is found that a slight change in the orientational distribution has a significant influence on the negative magneto-rheological effect. In a relatively dense suspension, the viscosity components arising from an applied magnetic field and the interaction between particles come to change rapidly for a certain strength of the magnetic particle–particle interaction, which is due to the onset of the formation of raft-like clusters.     

Chemical reduction of hematite by sodium borohydride

Well-crystallized hematite was suspended in water and treated at room-temperature (RT) with sodium borohydride. The product of the reaction is a highly magnetic black powder, which is stable at RT. The NaBH₄ treatment converts about half of the hematite to an amorphous Fe–B alloy and to a small fraction of sub-micron sized, amorphous metallic-Fe nodules. Heating at 400°C of this composite has resulted in the crystallization and/or oxidation of more than half of the amorphous Fe–B phase to α-Fe and Fe₃O₄ and B₂O₃, respectively. After treatment at 800°C, the metallic Fe and the amorphous Fe–B have completely vanished, and the resulting product consists of hematite and FeBO₃ embedded in the matrix of α-Fe₂O₃.