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@INPROCEEDINGS{Nandakumaran:866615,
author = {Nandakumaran, Nileena and Köhler, Tobias and Barnsley,
Lester and Feygenson, Mikhail and Feoktystov, Artem and
Petracic, Oleg and Brückel, Thomas},
title = {{M}agnetic small-angle neutron scattering from
self-assembled iron oxide nanoparticles influenced by field},
reportid = {FZJ-2019-05696},
year = {2019},
abstract = {Self-assembly of magnetic nanoparticles, in general, is of
interest due to the broad range of applications in material
science and biomedical engineering [1,2]. Parameters that
affect self-assembly in nanoparticles include particle size,
the applied magnetic field profile, concentration and
synthesis routines [3]. A range of different sizes of iron
oxide nanoparticles between 17 and 27 nm were investigated
using polarized small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) at the
KWS-1 instrument operated by the Jülich Centre for Neutron
Science (JCNS) at Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Zentrum (MLZ) in
Garching, Germany. Nanoparticles were dispersed in toluene
and measured at room temperature in a range of applied
fields between ±2.2 T. The observed self-assembly strongly
depended on both nanoparticle size and applied field. For
smaller particles (diameter ≤ 20 nm), there was no
indication of self-assembly even at high concentration
$(1\%$ v/v), while 27 nm nanoparticles assemble into linear
chains even in low concentrations $(0.42\%$ v/v) and low
field.The smallest nanoparticles (d = 17 nm) were studied by
contrast variation; by altering the isotopic composition of
the toluene solvent, the magnetization profile within the
cores of the nanoparticles could be extracted with
high-resolution when using a spin-polarized incident neutron
beam [4]. For larger nanoparticle, the structural and form
factors were obtained by sector analysis of the 2-D SANS
patterns (Fig. 1(a) and (b)). The extracted structure
factors suggest that the chains grow longer and straighter
and align more closely with the field direction up until
application of the maximum field (Fig. 1(c)). This is
understood in terms of a minimization of the dipole energy
of the nanoparticles in the presence of the applied field
and neighbouring particles. The implications for the control
of self-assembly of more complex nanoparticles will be
discussed.[1] G. Ozina, K. Hou, B. Lotsch, L. Cademartiri,
D.Puzzo, F. Scotognella, A. Ghadimi, J. Thomson, Materials
Today, Vol. 12, p.12 (2009)[2] P. Tartaj, Current
Nanoscience, Vol. 2, p.43 (2006) [3] Z. Fu, Y. Xiao, A.
Feoktystov, V. Pipich, M. Appavou, Y. Su, E. Feng, W. Jin
and T. Brückel, Nanoscale, Vol. 8, p.18541 (2016)[4] A.
Wiedenmann, Journal of Applied Crystallography, Vol. 33,
p.428 (2000)},
month = {Nov},
date = {2019-11-04},
organization = {64th Annual Conference on Magnetism
and Magnetic Materials, Las Vegas
(United States), 4 Nov 2019 - 8 Nov
2019},
subtyp = {After Call},
cin = {JCNS-FRM-II / JCNS-1 / JCNS-2 / MLZ},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)JCNS-FRM-II-20110218 /
I:(DE-Juel1)JCNS-1-20110106 / I:(DE-Juel1)JCNS-2-20110106 /
I:(DE-588b)4597118-3},
pnm = {524 - Controlling Collective States (POF3-524) / 6212 -
Quantum Condensed Matter: Magnetism, Superconductivity
(POF3-621) / 6G15 - FRM II / MLZ (POF3-6G15) / 6G4 - Jülich
Centre for Neutron Research (JCNS) (POF3-623)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-524 / G:(DE-HGF)POF3-6212 /
G:(DE-HGF)POF3-6G15 / G:(DE-HGF)POF3-6G4},
experiment = {EXP:(DE-MLZ)KWS1-20140101},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)6},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/866615},
}