Mechano-chemical reactions and.structural changes of some spinel-type ferrite powders by grinding have been investigated.
It was observed that the mechano-chemical reaction occurred on the MgFe
2O
4 particle surface during wet grinding and a thin layer containing combined water was formed on the surface. The thickness of the layer was almost constant independently of the grinding duration. The calculated values of OH's/100Å
2 (the number of OH radical per unit surface area) for wet ground samples were in the range of 62 to 66. The Mg
0.86Mn
0.43Fe
0.71O
4 powder was subjected to various wet grinding treatments using the following three types of mill: 1) attritor, 2) ball mill, 3) vibratory mill. The thickness of the layer containing combined water was nearly constant independently of a variety of grinding treatments. The calculated values of OH's/100Å2 were in the range of 79 to 92.
The powder of ordered Li
0.5Fe
2.5O
4, in the spinel structure of which the Li and Fe ions make 1:3 ordering at the octahedral sites, were wet ground in a ball mill. As a result, the long-range order parameter decreased with increasing the grinding time.
In the case of the CuFe
2O
4 powder, the tetragonal structure was gradually transformed to the cubic one with grinding. The mechanism of this mechanochemical polymorphic transformation can be explained by the destruction of a cooperative Jahn-Teller effect by grinding.
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