Magnetic and Magnetocaloric Properties of Nano- and Polycrystalline Manganites La(0.7−x)EuxBa0.3MnO3
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Here, we report synthesis and investigations of bulk and nano-sized La(0.7−x)EuxBa0.3MnO3 (x ≤ 0.4) compounds. The study presents a comparison between the structural and magnetic properties of the nano- and polycrystalline manganites La(0.7−x)EuxBa0.3MnO3, which are potential magnetocaloric materials to be used in domestic magnetic refrigeration close to room temperature. The parent compound, La0.7Ba0.3MnO3, has Curie temperature TC = 340 K. The magnetocaloric effect is at its maximum around TC. To reduce this temperature below 300 K, we partially replaced the La ions with Eu ions. A solid-state reaction was used to prepare bulk polycrystalline materials, and a sol-gel method was used for the nanoparticles. X-ray diffraction was used for the structural characterization of the compounds. Transmission electron spectroscopy (TEM) evidenced nanoparticle sizes in the range of 40–80 nm. Iodometry and inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry (ICP-OES) was used to investigate the oxygen content of the studied compounds. Critical exponents were calculated for all samples, with bulk samples being governed by tricritical mean field model and nanocrystalline samples governed by the 3D Heisenberg model. The bulk sample with x = 0.05 shows room temperature phase transition TC = 297 K, which decreases with increasing x for the other samples. All nano-sized compounds show lower TC values compared to the same bulk samples. The magnetocaloric effect in bulk samples revealed a greater magnetic entropy change in a relatively narrow temperature range, while nanoparticles show lower values, but in a temperature range several times larger. The relative cooling power for bulk and nano-sized samples exhibit approximately equal values for the same substitution level, and this fact can substantially contribute to applications in magnetic refrigeration near room temperature. By combining the magnetic properties of the nano- and polycrystalline manganites, better magnetocaloric materials can be obtained.Keywords:
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