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JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS
Volume 106, Issue 11, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.3259365
Keywords
alumina; colloids; diffusion barriers; electrodeposition; extinction coefficients; magnetic moments; nanoparticles; nickel; porous materials; suspensions
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Aqueous dispersions of nickel nanorods, approximate to 13 nm in diameter and 40-160 nm in length, were synthesized using ac electrodeposition into porous alumina templates. The nanorods in suspension can be aligned by modest magnetic fields, which leads to a change in the optical transmittance of the dispersion. Optical transmission measurements with polarized and unpolarized light as a function of magnetic field were performed on suspensions of different particle concentration and varying aspect ratio of the nanoparticles. The experimental results were compared with a theoretical model in which the optical absorption of the nanorods is calculated from the polarizability of prolate ellipsoids in the quasistatic approximation. The magnetic field dependence is introduced in terms of the static orientational distribution function of magnetic moments in an external field. In addition, the relaxation dynamics of the optical transmission was studied, which allowed us to determine the rotational diffusion coefficient of the nanorods in suspension.
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