@article {Bellucci:2012:1533-4880:2691, title = "Preparation and Structural Characterization of Vulcanized Natural Rubber Nanocomposites Containing Nickel-Zinc Ferrite Nanopowders", journal = "Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology", parent_itemid = "infobike://asp/jnn", publishercode ="asp", year = "2012", volume = "12", number = "3", publication date ="2012-03-01T00:00:00", pages = "2691-2699", itemtype = "ARTICLE", issn = "1533-4880", eissn = "1533-4899", url = "https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/asp/jnn/2012/00000012/00000003/art00137", doi = "doi:10.1166/jnn.2012.5694", author = "Bellucci, F. S. and Salmazo, L. O. and Budemberg, E. R. and Silva, M. R. da and Rodr{\’ı}guez-P{\’e}rez, M. A. and Nobre, M. A. L. and Job, A. E.", abstract = "Single-phase polycrystalline mixed nickel-zinc ferrites belonging to Ni0.5Zn0.5Fe2O4 were prepared on a nanometric scale (mean crystallite size equal to 14.7 nm) by chemical synthesis named the modified poliol method. Ferrite nanopowder was then incorporated into a natural rubber matrix producing nanocomposites. The samples were investigated by means of infrared spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy and magnetic measurements. The obtained results suggest that the base concentration of nickel-zinc ferrite nanoparticles inside the polymer matrix volume greatly influences the magnetic properties of nanocomposites. A small quantity of nanoparticles, less than 10 phr, in the nanocomposite is sufficient to produce a small alteration in the semi-crystallinity of nanocomposites observed by X-ray diffraction analysis and it produces a flexible magnetic composite material with a saturation magnetization, a coercivity field and an initial magnetic permeability equal to 3.08 emu/g, 99.22 Oe and 9.42\texttimes105 respectively.", }