Local magnetism in graphene / transition metal oxide nanocomposites

DOI

Properties of graphene that make it an important material are its exceptionally high conductivity, massless fermions and a high velocity of electrons near the Dirac points. Composites of graphene and transition metal oxides (TMOs) are being investigated as possible supercapacitor storage materials, and graphene may also find use in spintronic devices because of its large electron spin diffusion length. In this proposal we investigate the local magnetism in graphene - magnetic TMO composites, the TMOs being nanoscale antiferromagnetic insulators, the surface of their nanostructures having a net magnetic moment. uSR will be used to probe these materials to look for magnetic coupling between the graphene and the TMO moments. Measurements will be made when at temperatures low enough to observe the impact of graphene on magnetic moment freezing in the TMOs and when applying magnetic fields.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.87842210
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/87842210
Provenance
Creator Dr Ian Terry; Dr Adam Berlie; Miss Aqsa Arshad
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2020
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
Representation
Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Natural Sciences; Physics
Temporal Coverage Begin 2017-12-18T09:30:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2017-12-20T09:30:00Z