Fe impurities weaken the ferromagnetic behavior in Au nanoparticles

In this Letter, we report on a crucial experiment showing that magnetic impurities reduce the ferromagnetic order temperature in thiol-capped Au glyconanoparticles (GNPs). The spontaneous magnetization of AuFe GNPs exhibits a fast decrease with temperature that contrasts with the almost constant val...

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Autores: Crespo del Arco, Patricia, García, M. A., Fernández Pinel, E., Multigner, M., Alcántara, D., De la Fuente, J. M., Penadés, S., Hernando Grande, Antonio
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2006
País:España
Institución:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
Repositorio:Docta Complutense
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/52008
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/52008
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:538.9
Gold
Glyconanoparticles
Molecules
Física de materiales
Física del estado sólido
2211 Física del Estado Sólido
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Sumario:In this Letter, we report on a crucial experiment showing that magnetic impurities reduce the ferromagnetic order temperature in thiol-capped Au glyconanoparticles (GNPs). The spontaneous magnetization of AuFe GNPs exhibits a fast decrease with temperature that contrasts with the almost constant value of the magnetization observed in Au NPs. Moreover, hysteresis disappears below 300 K. Both features indicate that Fe impurities reduce the high local anisotropy field responsible for the ferromagnetic behavior in Au GNPs. As a consequence, the amazing ferromagnetism in Au NPs should not be associated with the presence of magnetic impurities.