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Magnetic multicore nanoparticles were produced by crystallisation of a glass with the composition Na2O·Al2O3·B2O3·SiO2·Fe2O3. During cooling of the melt, in a first step, phase separation occurred and droplets enriched in boron and iron oxide were formed. These droplets crystallised spontaneously during cooling. The phase-separated droplets had sizes in the range from 200 to 800 nm. Inside the droplets, magnetite crystals with a mean size of 33 nm occurred. Magnetometer measurements showed the occurrence of a small hysteresis which indicates predominantly superparamagnetic behaviour of the magnetite crystals. The magnetic domains of the phase-separated droplets were studied by magnetic force microscopy. In this article, a glass which is exposed to a magnetic field shows droplet-shape phase separations where the single-domain magnetite crystals do not have a preferred orientation of the magnetic dipoles. By contrast, the whole droplet shows one magnetic dipole parallel to the external field if the glass is exposed to a magnetic field during measurement.
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Worsch, C., Schaaf, P., Harizanova, R. et al. Magnetisation effects of multicore magnetite nanoparticles crystallised from a silicate glass. J Mater Sci 47, 5886–5890 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10853-012-6490-3
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