Preparation and Magnetic Property of La0.7Sr0.3MnO3 Nanorod by Combination Sol-Gel with Molten Salt

Abstract

La0.7Sr0.3MnO3(LSMO) nanorods were synthesized by a method combining sol-gel with molten salts at 950 °C for 10 h, which employed KCl+NaCl(mass ratio 4:1) as eutectic molten salts. The morphologies and magnetic properties of the resulting LSMO nanorods were investigated by X-ray diffraction(XRD), scanning electron microscopy(SEM), transmission electron microscopy(TEM), and vibrating sample magnetometer(VSM) measurements. It was found that the obtained perovskite manganite LSMO was a uniform nanorod with a diameter of about 50 nm and a length of longer than 500 nm. The Curie temperature(Tc) of the LSMO nanorod used here was 262 K, much lower than that of bulky single crystal LSMO(360 K). The low Curie temperature might be a result of the great disorder near the grain boundary, which could be observed clearly from the TEM picture.