Magnetic Microemulsions as TunableNanomagnets

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Control of sub-micron sized particles is of increasing interest as there is clear evidence that small atomic clusters (n = 10-1000 atoms) exhibit novel hybrid properties between the molecular and bulk solid-state limits. Through SANS and SQUID magnetometry we recently showed that quantum effects can be observed in nanoparticle-free ferrofluids through the design of magnetic micelles and microemulsions from magneto-surfactants1. Such systems bridge the gap between molecular nanomagnets (n <30) and magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs) (n = 100-1000)2, allowing controlled values of n and combining magnetic ordering with properties such as low-density, and electric insulation. This is a significant step forward as the advantage of employing these microemulsions over nanoparticle containing ferrofluids is in situ tunability through careful control of surfactant type, mixture ratio, and composite volume fractions: the proposal aims to explore this tunability.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.5291/ILL-DATA.9-10-1317
Metadata Access https://data.ill.fr/openaire/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=10.5291/ILL-DATA.9-10-1317
Provenance
Creator Yan, Ci; James, Craig; Smith, Gregory; Grillo, Isabelle; Eastoe, Julian; Navarro, Miguel; Brown, Paul; Alexander, Shirin
Publisher Institut Laue-Langevin
Publication Year 2014
Rights OpenAccess; info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
OpenAccess true
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Resource Type Dataset
Size 298 MB
Version 1
Discipline Particles, Nuclei and Fields