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JOURNAL OF MATERIALS SCIENCE
Volume 48, Issue 6, Pages 2299-2307Publisher
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DOI: 10.1007/s10853-012-7009-7
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A glass with the composition 13K(2)O*13Al(2)O(3)*16B(2)O(3)*43SiO(2)*15Fe(2)O(3-x) was melted and rapidly quenched in water. This leads to the formation of phase-separated droplets with diameters from 100 to 150 nm. Magnetite crystals with a size of 10-20 nm precipitate within these droplets. The magnetite containing phase-separated regions can be separated from the glass by dissolving the SiO2-rich amorphous glass matrix through boiling the pulverized glass in a concentrated aqueous sodium hydroxide solution. The residual, magnetite containing phase-separated droplets match multicore magnetite nanoparticles (McNP). The magnetite nanoparticles show superparamagnetic behaviour and as McNP, lead to a higher effective magnetic radius than single crystals. Magnetisation measurements of the McNP indicate that the particles show a narrow hysteresis, but the ratio of remanent to saturation magnetisation is not high enough for uniaxial anisotropy. The additionally performed temperature-dependent magnetorelaxometry (TMRX) measurements show peaks at 13 and 39 K in the distribution of the magnetic moment relaxation. The obtained inter-particle distance of the magnetite within the McNP is smaller than 5 d (C) (core diameter), leading to strong magnetic interactions.
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