Nature Communications (May 2016)

Sampling the structure and chemical order in assemblies of ferromagnetic nanoparticles by nuclear magnetic resonance

  • Yuefeng Liu,
  • Jingjie Luo,
  • Yooleemi Shin,
  • Simona Moldovan,
  • Ovidiu Ersen,
  • Anne Hébraud,
  • Guy Schlatter,
  • Cuong Pham-Huu,
  • Christian Meny

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11532
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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As nanoparticles possess technological applications from catalysis to medical therapies, methods to probe their structural properties are crucial. Here, the authors extend a nuclear magnetic resonance method to extract such properties for specific size ranges of noninteracting magnetic particles.