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Published on: June 9, 2016
Ribbons of superparamagnetic colloids in magnetic field
A Darras1,2, J Fiscina3, M Pakpour4
1GRASP - Physics Department, University of Liège, B-4000, Liège, Belgium. alexis.darras@ulg.ac.be.
Abstract:
While the aggregation process of superparamagnetic colloids in strong magnetic field is well known on short time since a few decades, recent theoretical works predicted an equilibrium state reached after a long time. In the present paper, we present experimental observations of this equilibrium state with a two-dimensional system and we compare our data with the predictions of a pre-existing model. Above a critical aggregation size, a deviation between the model and the experimental data is observed. This deviation is explained by the formation of ribbon-shaped aggregates. The ribbons are formed due to lateral aggregation of chains. An estimation of the magnetic energy for chains and ribbons shows that ribbons are stable structures when the number of magnetic grains is higher than N = 30 .
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