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Structural phase transitions in isotropic magnetic elastomers

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Magnetic elastomers represent a new type of materials that are “soft” matrices with “hard” magnetic granules embedded in them. The elastic forces of the matrix and the magnetic forces acting between granules are comparable in magnitude even under small deformations. As a result, these materials acquire a number of new properties; in particular, their mechanical and/or magnetic characteristics can depend strongly on the polymer matrix filling with magnetic particles and can change under the action of an external magnetic field, pressure, and temperature. To describe the properties of elastomers, we use a model in which the interaction of magnetic granules randomly arranged in space with one another is described in the dipole approximation by the distribution function of dipole fields, while their interaction with the matrix is described phenomenologically. A multitude of deformation, magnetic-field, and temperature effects that are described in this paper and are quite accessible to experimental observation arise within this model.

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  1. National Research Center “Kurchatov Institute”, pl. Kurchatova 1, Moscow, 123182, Russia

    E. Z. Meilikhov & R. M. Farzetdinova

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Original Russian Text © E.Z. Meilikhov, R.M. Farzetdinova, 2016, published in Zhurnal Eksperimental’noi i Teoreticheskoi Fiziki, 2016, Vol. 149, No. 6, pp. 1198–1207.

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Meilikhov, E.Z., Farzetdinova, R.M. Structural phase transitions in isotropic magnetic elastomers. J. Exp. Theor. Phys. 122, 1038–1046 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063776116060170

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