Stabilizing vortices in interacting nano-objects: A chemical approach

Nano Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 3245-3250

  Lacroix, Lise Marie ^a,b   Lachaize, Sébastien ^a,b   Hue, Florian ^c,e   Gatel, Christophe ^d   Blon, Thomas ^a,b   Tan, Reasmey P ^a,b   Carrey, Julian ^a,b   Warot Fonrose, Bénédicte ^d   Chaudret, Bruno ^a,b  

^a INSA   (France)

^b Institut National des Sciences Appliquées   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d CEMES CNRS   (France)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE ROUEN   (France)

Author keywords

bcc Fe; electron holography; electron tomography; Magnetic nanoparticles; porous nano objects; vortex stabilization

Indexed keywords

BCC-FE; ELECTRON TOMOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC NANOPARTICLES; NANO-OBJECTS; VORTEX STABILIZATION;

ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRON HOLOGRAPHY; MICROELECTRONICS; STABILIZATION;

VORTEX FLOW;

IRON; MAGNETITE NANOPARTICLE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; MAGNETIC FIELD; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; POROSITY; RADIATION EXPOSURE;

CRYSTALLIZATION; IRON; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETITE NANOPARTICLES; MATERIALS TESTING; POROSITY;

EID: 84862284750     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl3012616     Document Type: Article

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