Abstract
The iron crosslinked chitosan (Ch-Fe-CL) and N-carboxylmethyl chitosan (N-CM-Ch-Fe) complexes were studied by complementary techniques: structurally sensitive Mössbauer and X-ray absorption methods, as well as static magnetic measurements. A detailed and consistent description of these complexes including, besides the overall magnetic behavior, the spin ordering and local atomic structure around Fe ions is presented. Fe atoms in the investigated samples are mostly penta-coordinated and appear in a high spin Fe (3+) ionic state. In Ch-Fe-CL, two kinds of Fe near neighbors are equally probable and several Fe atoms are situated in the second coordination sphere. The magnetic interactions between these Fe ions lead to a sperimagnetic-like ordering. In N-CM-Ch-Fe, only one Fe neighborhood was found. Other Fe atoms were identified neither in the first nor in the second coordination sphere, but the third coordination sphere indicates the presence of Fe atoms. The magnetic coupling between these atoms is antiferromagnetic, but the dominant part of Fe in this sample remains in a paramagnetic state.
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