A Mössbauer study of iron and iron–cobalt nanotubes in polymer ion-track membranes

Abstract

Iron and iron-cobalt nanostructures that were synthesized in polymer ion-track membranes have been studied via Mössbauer spectroscopy combined with raster electron microscopy, energy-dispersion analysis, and X-ray diffraction data. The obtained nanostructures are single-phase bcc Fe 1 -x Co x nanotubes with a high degree of polycrystallinity, whose length is 12 μm; their diameter is 110 ± 3 nm and the wall thickness is 21 ± 2 nm. Fe 2+ and Fe 3+ cations were detected in the nanotubes, which belong to iron salts that were used and formed in the electrochemical deposition. The Fe nanotubes exhibit eventual magnetic moment direction distributions of Fe atoms, whereas Fe/Co nanotubes have a partial magnetic structure along the nanotube axis with a mean value of the angle between the magnetic moment and nanotube axis of 34° ± 2°. Substituting the Fe atom with Co in the nearest environment of the Fe atom within the Fe/Co structure of nanotubes leads to a noticeable increase in the hyperfine magnetic field at the 57 Fe nuclei (by 8.7 ± 0.4 kOe) and to a slight decrease in the shift of the Mössbauer line (by 0.005 ± 0.004 mm/s).

Study of the Applicability of Fe Nanotubes as an Anode Material of Lithium-Ion Batteries

“…One of the ways to solve these problems is the development of new materials for electrodes and electrolytes [7][8][9]. Despite the active use of carbon and silicon nanostructures that have proven themselves as anode materials for lithium-ion batteries, due to the high stability and longer service life, there are a number of technological limitations on their production and control of structural properties [10][11][12]. Among the nanostructured materials, Fe-based nanostructures are attractive because of their excellent ferromagnetic properties, high level of magnetization, and ability to control the magnetic texture, which is one of the important characteristics for the potential use of nanostructures in various fields [13][14][15][16][17][18].…”