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Mn 3 O 4 nanoparticles were prepared by a simple chemical route using cetyltetramethylammonium bromide (CTAB) as a template agent. Mn 3 O 4 nanocrystals present an octahedral shape, and their crystallite size varies between 20 and 80 nm. They were characterized by XRD, SEM, DTA/TG, and IR spectroscopy. XRD studies confirm the presence of a highly crystalline Mn 3 O 4 phase. The Rietveld refinement of the X-ray diffraction data confirms that Mn 3 O 4 nanoparticles crystallize in the tetragonal system with space group I41/amd. DTA/TG and XRD measurements demonstrate the phase transition toward a spinel structure between 25 and 700 • C. The electrical conductivity increases between 80 and 300 • C, suggesting a semiconducting behaviour of Mn 3 O 4 . Both dielectric dispersion (ε ) and dielectric loss (ε ) were investigated from 80 and 300 • C in the frequency range of 10 Hz-13 MHz. The dielectric properties showed typical dielectric dispersion based on the Maxwell-Wagner model.

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The PARRNe (Production d'Atomes Radioactifs Riches en Neutrons) experimental program has been part of the recent R&D efforts for the design of the SPIRAL2 project at GANIL. The PARRNe2 set-up installed at IPNOrsay allows the use of the Tandem as a deuteron driver in order to produce mass separated fission fragment beams. The measured fission fragment yields proved to be high enough to undertake a series of β-decay experiments dedicated at studying the structure of proton-deficient nuclei close to N=50. We report here on two such experiments, the first being dedicated at the observation of the decay of 83 Ga→ 83 Ge (Z=32, N=51), 84 Ga→ 84 Ge (Z=32, N=52) and the second of the decay of 81 Zn→ 81 Ga (Z=31, N=50) allowing for the fist time the identification of a few γ lines with transitions in the daughter nuclei thus providing the material for a preliminary glimpse of their structure.