Materials (Mar 2022)

Magnetic Resonance Studies of Hybrid Nanocomposites Containing Nanocrystalline TiO<sub>2</sub> and Graphene-Related Materials

  • Nikos Guskos,
  • Grzegorz Zolnierkiewicz,
  • Ewelina Kusiak-Nejman,
  • Aleksander Guskos,
  • Konstantinos Aidinis,
  • Marta Bobrowska,
  • Paweł Berczynski,
  • Agnieszka Wanag,
  • Iwona Pelech,
  • Urszula Narkiewicz,
  • Antoni W. Morawski

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/ma15062244
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 15, no. 6
p. 2244

Abstract

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Nanocomposites based on nanocrystalline titania modified with graphene-related materials (reduced and oxidized form of graphene) showed the existence of magnetic agglomerates. All parameters of magnetic resonance spectra strongly depended on the materials’ modification processes. The reduction of graphene oxide significantly increased the number of magnetic moments, which caused crucial changes in the reorientation and relaxation processes. At room temperature, a wide resonance line dominated for all nanocomposites studied and in some cases, a narrow resonance line derived from the conduction electrons. Some nanocomposites (samples of titania modified with graphene oxide, prepared with the addition of water or butan-1-ol) showed a single domain magnetic (ferromagnetic) arrangement, and others (samples of titania modified with reduced graphene oxide) exhibited magnetic anisotropy. In addition, the spectra of EPR from free radicals were observed for all samples at the temperature of 4 K. The magnetic resonance imaging methods enable the capturing of even a small number of localized magnetic moments, which significantly affects the physicochemical properties of the materials.

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