Content of review 1, reviewed on January 09, 2023
- There are work focused on Dielectric and Magnetic Properties of La Substituted CoFe2O4 Nanoparticles and the effect of lanthanum (La3+) substitution. Although the saturation magnetization decreases with increasing La3+ ion concentrations , it would be useful to include the comparison with other research for example: Vadivel M., Ramesh Babu R., Selvakumar P., Arivanandhan M., Ramamurthi K. (2017) Structural, Dielectric and Magnetic Properties of La Substituted CoFe2O4 Nanoparticles. In: Ebenezar J. (eds) Recent Trends in Materials Science and Applications. Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol 189. Springer, Cham. and Routray, K.L., Saha, S. & Behera, D. Rare-earth (La3+) substitution induced changes in the structural, dielectric and magnetic properties of nano-CoFe2O4 for high-frequency and magneto-recording devices. Appl. Phys. A 125, 328 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00339-019-2615-8 .Would be interesting to explain why the saturation magnetization decrease is different. The following articles can be cited.
- The motivation of this study is not clear, why La+ is used to substitute Fe atom, and what is the drawback of CoFe2O4 limiting its applications.
- Revise the introduction with the help of latest references on CoFe2O4 giving importance to the application part.
- In figure 1, only X=0.09 shows La related peaks, other concentrations don't show any peaks, it is hard to claim La successfully substituted Fe atoms. What is the effect of peak intensity on structural parameters?
- Why Ms decreases when La substituted Fe atoms? Also, magnetic study is vaguely discussed.
- The claim that magnetic properties being hard ferrite by substitutions by La3+ ions is not supported by the magnetic measurement. Discuss
- What is the mechanism of La doping in cationic distribution?
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Content of review 2, reviewed on January 18, 2023
Accepted.
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References
A., A. A. 2023. La3+ substitution impact on structural, magnetic, and electrical properties of CoFe2O4 synthesized via sucrose auto-combustion. Materials Research Express.