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JOURNAL OF NANOPARTICLE RESEARCH
Volume 14, Issue 8, Pages -Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11051-012-1061-8
Keywords
Magnetism; Nanoparticles; Assembly; Growth mechanism; Agglomerates
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- Alexander von Humboldt foundation
- [SFB 613]
- [FOR 945]
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It was recently shown that the exposure of magnetic microbeads to a homogeneous magnetic field, which rotates around the axis perpendicular to the field direction, generates highly ordered two-dimensional particle arrays. In this work, the impact of downscaling such systems is analyzed. Dilutions of cobalt nanoparticles with an average diameter of 6 nm were brought into a rotating homogeneous magnetic field. A strong localization of the number of particles within a certain cluster size can be observed if the rotation frequency is adjusted to a specific particle concentration. In particular, we obtain an increase of 85 % of the maximum of the cluster size distribution, when changing the rotation frequency of the magnetic field from 300 to 750 rpm for a cobalt concentration of 35.95 mmol/l. We propose a heuristic model to explain the observed frequency dependence.
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