Magnetic and Optical Properties of Isolated and Aggregated CoFe2O4 Superparamagnetic Nanoparticles Studied by MCD Spectroscopy

Autor: Finn Purcell-Milton, Yurii K. Gun'ko, Mikhail A. Baranov, Anatoly V. Fedorov, Raquel Serrano-García, Yulia A. Gromova, Alexander V. Baranov, Vera Kuznetsova, Vladimir G. Maslov
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 122:11491-11497
ISSN: 1932-7455
1932-7447
Popis: Magnetic, optical, and structural properties of superparamagnetic CoFe2O4 nanoparticles (MNPs), both isolated and in aggregates, are investigated by magnetic circular dichroism (MCD) spectroscopy. The MCD signal for MNPs is more than an order of magnitude greater than the signal for organic molecules, therefore making this technique a very sensitive tool for the examination of MNP properties. MNP aggregation had a distinct effect upon the MCD signal intensity. Correlation between MCD signal intensity and MNP magnetization shows that MNP aggregation in colloidal solutions results in the changing of MNP magnetization with a maximum at the mean aggregate size of approximately 100 nm.
Databáze: OpenAIRE