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Low-temperature acetone-assisted hydrothermal synthesis and characterization of BiFeO3 powders

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Well-crystallized pure perovskite bismuth ferrite (BiFeO3) powders have been synthesized by a facile hydrothermal route at the temperature as low as 130 °C with the aid of acetone. In the synthesis, acetone played important roles in the low-temperature synthesis of pure BiFeO3. The as-prepared BiFeO3 powders mainly consisted of cubic particles with the size range from 50 to 200 nm. zero-field-cooled and field-cooled magnetization measurements indicated that pure BiFeO3 powders showed a spin-glass transition below the freezing temperature. The as-prepared pure BiFeO3 powders showed weak ferromagnetism and ferroelectricity simultaneously at room temperature. Moreover, the bismuth ferrite BiFeO3 exhibit efficient photocatalytic activity under visible light irradiation.

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The project was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 50702022), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, SCUT (Nos. x2clD2115100; 2009ZM0015) and Produce-learn-research Projects of Guangdong Province-the Ministry of Education (No. 2012B091100393).

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Chen, Z., Jin, W. Low-temperature acetone-assisted hydrothermal synthesis and characterization of BiFeO3 powders. J Mater Sci: Mater Electron 25, 4039–4045 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-014-2126-5

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