“…[7] Two peaks were observed at 1,472 and 1,073 cm À1 assigned to the stretching vibration of C-O-C and C-N groups, respectively, [7,8] Finally, three weak peaks were observed at 611, 564, and 464 cm À1 to predict the Fe-O, Sr-O, and Gd-O vibration. [6,8,[41][42][43][44][45][46][52][53][54] Figure 2 shows the XRD patterns of Gd/SrFe and its Gd/SrFe@SBCs nanocomposite for Gd/SrFe@SBCs, the XRD peaks observed at 2θ value of 20.73 correspond to the pure chitosan and a shoulder peak at 2θ value of 15 correspond to the Schiff base chitosan. [6][7][8]27,28] In addition, the peaks at 2θ value of 28.87, 32.95, 47.17, and 57.02 correspond to the (222), (400), (440), and (622) planes of the cubic phase of Gd 2 O 3 [52][53][54] and those at [41][42][43][44][45][46] The average crystallite sizes of Gd 2 O 3 and SrFe 12 O 19 in Gd/SrFe were calculated at about 51 and 36 nm, respectively, using Scherrer equation, d = 0.94λ/β cosθ, where d is the crystalline size (nm), λ is the wavelength of the X-ray radiation (1.54 Å), β is FWHM, and θ is Bragg's angle.…”