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Title: Iron oxide-based nanostructured ceramics with tailored magnetic and mechanical properties: development of mechanically robust, bulk superparamagnetic materials

Abstract

Nanostructured iron-oxide based materials with tailored mechanical and magnetic behavior are produced in bulk form. By applying ultra-fast heating routines via spark plasma sintering (SPS) to supercrystalline pellets, materials with an enhanced combination of elastic modulus, hardness and saturation magnetization are achieved. Supercrystallinity – namely the arrangement of the constituent nanoparticles into periodic structures – is achieved through self-assembly of the organically-functionalized iron oxide nanoparticles. The optimization of the following SPS regime allows the control of organics' removal, necking, iron oxide phase transformations and nano-grain size retention, and thus the fine-tuning of both mechanical properties and magnetic response, up until the production of bulk mm-size superparamagnetic materials.

Authors:
ORCiD logo [1];  [2];  [3];  [4]; ORCiD logo [5];  [1]; ORCiD logo [1];  [3];  [4];  [6];  [3];  [1]
  1. Institute of Advanced Ceramics, Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH), D-21073 Hamburg, Germany
  2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, San Diego State University (SDSU), San Diego, USA
  3. Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, San Diego (UCSD), La Jolla, USA
  4. Institute of Materials Research, Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht, D-21502 Geesthacht, Germany
  5. Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne, UMR 6303 CNRS-Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté, Dijon Cedex F-21078, France
  6. Department of Mechanical Engineering, San Diego State University (SDSU), San Diego, USA, Department of Nanoengineering
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
San Diego State Univ., CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC); German Research Foundation (DFG)
OSTI Identifier:
1532425
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1904499
Grant/Contract Number:  
SC0008581
Resource Type:
Published Article
Journal Name:
Nanoscale Advances
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: Nanoscale Advances Journal Volume: 1 Journal Issue: 8; Journal ID: ISSN 2516-0230
Publisher:
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
Country of Publication:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Subject:
77 NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY; Chemistry; Science & Technology; Materials Science

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Giuntini, Diletta, Torresani, Elisa, Chan, Kyle T., Blankenburg, Malte, Saviot, Lucien, Bor, Büsra, Domènech, Berta, Shachar, Meir, Müller, Martin, Olevsky, Eugene A., Garay, Javier E., and Schneider, Gerold A. Iron oxide-based nanostructured ceramics with tailored magnetic and mechanical properties: development of mechanically robust, bulk superparamagnetic materials. United Kingdom: N. p., 2019. Web. doi:10.1039/C9NA00222G.
Giuntini, Diletta, Torresani, Elisa, Chan, Kyle T., Blankenburg, Malte, Saviot, Lucien, Bor, Büsra, Domènech, Berta, Shachar, Meir, Müller, Martin, Olevsky, Eugene A., Garay, Javier E., & Schneider, Gerold A. Iron oxide-based nanostructured ceramics with tailored magnetic and mechanical properties: development of mechanically robust, bulk superparamagnetic materials. United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.1039/C9NA00222G
Giuntini, Diletta, Torresani, Elisa, Chan, Kyle T., Blankenburg, Malte, Saviot, Lucien, Bor, Büsra, Domènech, Berta, Shachar, Meir, Müller, Martin, Olevsky, Eugene A., Garay, Javier E., and Schneider, Gerold A. Tue . "Iron oxide-based nanostructured ceramics with tailored magnetic and mechanical properties: development of mechanically robust, bulk superparamagnetic materials". United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.1039/C9NA00222G.
@article{osti_1532425,
title = {Iron oxide-based nanostructured ceramics with tailored magnetic and mechanical properties: development of mechanically robust, bulk superparamagnetic materials},
author = {Giuntini, Diletta and Torresani, Elisa and Chan, Kyle T. and Blankenburg, Malte and Saviot, Lucien and Bor, Büsra and Domènech, Berta and Shachar, Meir and Müller, Martin and Olevsky, Eugene A. and Garay, Javier E. and Schneider, Gerold A.},
abstractNote = {Nanostructured iron-oxide based materials with tailored mechanical and magnetic behavior are produced in bulk form. By applying ultra-fast heating routines via spark plasma sintering (SPS) to supercrystalline pellets, materials with an enhanced combination of elastic modulus, hardness and saturation magnetization are achieved. Supercrystallinity – namely the arrangement of the constituent nanoparticles into periodic structures – is achieved through self-assembly of the organically-functionalized iron oxide nanoparticles. The optimization of the following SPS regime allows the control of organics' removal, necking, iron oxide phase transformations and nano-grain size retention, and thus the fine-tuning of both mechanical properties and magnetic response, up until the production of bulk mm-size superparamagnetic materials.},
doi = {10.1039/C9NA00222G},
journal = {Nanoscale Advances},
number = 8,
volume = 1,
place = {United Kingdom},
year = {Tue Aug 06 00:00:00 EDT 2019},
month = {Tue Aug 06 00:00:00 EDT 2019}
}

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