Supracolloidal magnetic polymer-like aggregates: structural properties of self-assembled pairs
- Author(s)
- Ekaterina Novak, Elena S. Pyanzina, Dmitriy Rozhkov, Pedro A. Sánchez, Sofia Kantorovich
- Abstract
We study via molecular dynamics simulations the self-assembled structures formed by supracolloidal magnetic polymers (SMPs). These are small aggregates of magnetic colloidal particles with polymer-like structures that have been permanently stabilized by means of polymer crosslinking. Here we focus on the fundamental structural and magnetic properties of the self-assembled motifs formed by pairs of identical SMPs under different conditions. We observe that the minimum characteristic density at which the self-assembly of both SMPs into a single aggregate becomes dominant is signaled by a maximum in their net magnetization and radius of gyration.
- Organisation(s)
- Computational and Soft Matter Physics
- External organisation(s)
- Ural Federal University
- Journal
- Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials
- Volume
- 470
- Pages
- 22-27
- No. of pages
- 6
- ISSN
- 0304-8853
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmmm.2017.10.075
- Publication date
- 10-2017
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 103015 Condensed matter
- Keywords
- ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Condensed Matter Physics
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/d24cd5cd-06e7-4fde-bfde-5d41193d3e47