Development of nanometer-sized magnetic particles exhibiting a large coercive field (Hc) is in high demand for densification of magnetic recording. Herein, we report a single-nanosize (i.e., less than ten nanometers across) hard magnetic ferrite. This magnetic ferrite is composed of ε-Fe2O3, with a sufficiently high Hc value for magnetic recording systems and a remarkably high magnetic anisotropy constant of 7.7 × 106 erg cm−3. For example, 8.2-nm nanoparticles have an Hc value of 5.2 kOe at room temperature. A colloidal solution of these nanoparticles possesses a light orange color due to a wide band gap of 2.9 eV (430 nm), indicating a possibility of transparent magnetic pigments. Additionally, we have observed magnetization-induced second harmonic generation (MSHG). The nonlinear optical-magnetoelectric effect of the present polar magnetic nanocrystal was quite strong. These findings have been demonstrated in a simple iron oxide, which is highly significant from the viewpoints of economic cost and mass production.
Commonly available heat-storage materials cannot usually store the energy for a prolonged period. If a solid material could conserve the accumulated thermal energy, then its heat-storage application potential is considerably widened. Here we report a phase transition material that can conserve the latent heat energy in a wide temperature range, T<530 K and release the heat energy on the application of pressure. This material is stripe-type lambda-trititanium pentoxide, λ-Ti3O5, which exhibits a solid–solid phase transition to beta-trititanium pentoxide, β-Ti3O5. The pressure for conversion is extremely small, only 600 bar (60 MPa) at ambient temperature, and the accumulated heat energy is surprisingly large (230 kJ L−1). Conversely, the pressure-produced beta-trititanium pentoxide transforms to lambda-trititanium pentoxide by heat, light or electric current. That is, the present system exhibits pressure-and-heat, pressure-and-light and pressure-and-current reversible phase transitions. The material may be useful for heat storage, as well as in sensor and switching memory device applications.
The phase transition between gamma-trititanium-pentoxide (γ-Ti3O5) and delta-trititanium-pentoxide (δ-Ti3O5) was clarified from both experimental and theoretical viewpoints. With decreasing temperature, the monoclinic I2/c crystal structure of γ-Ti3O5 was found to switch to a monoclinic P2/a crystal structure of δ-Ti3O5 due to lowering of symmetry. Electrical conductivity (σ) measurement shows that γ-Ti3O5 behaves like a metallic conductor with a σ value of 4.7 S cm–1 at 320 K, while δ-Ti3O5 shows a semiconductive property with a σ value of 2.5 × 10–5 S cm–1 at 70 K. Optical measurement also supports that γ-Ti3O5 is a metallic conductor, while δ-Ti3O5 is a semiconductor with a band gap of 0.07 eV. First-principles calculations show that γ-Ti3O5 is a metallic conductor, and the energy state on the Fermi energy is composed of the 3d orbital of Ti and 2p orbital of O with one-dimensional linkage along the crystallographic c-axis. On the contrary, δ-Ti3O5 has a band gap, and the energy state around the Fermi energy is split into the valence band and the conduction band, which are assigned to the lower and upper Hubbard bands, respectively. Thus, the phase transition between γ-Ti3O5 and δ-Ti3O5 is caused by breaking of a one-dimensionally conducting pathway due to a Mott–Hubbard metal–insulator phase transition.
Ferrite magnets have a long history. They are used in motors, magnetic fluids, drug delivery systems, etc. Herein we report a mesoscopic ferrite bar magnet based on rod-shaped ε-Fe2O3 with a large coercive field (>25 kOe). The ε-Fe2O3–based bar magnet is a single crystal with a single magnetic domain along the longitudinal direction. A wide frequency range spectroscopic study shows that the crystallographic a-axis of ε-Fe2O3, which corresponds to the longitudinal direction of the bar magnet, plays an important role in linear and non-linear magneto-optical transitions, phonon modes, and the magnon (Kittel mode). Due to its multiferroic property, a magnetic-responsive non-linear optical sheet is manufactured as an application using an ε-Fe2O3–based bar magnet, resin, and polyethylene terephthalate. Furthermore, from the viewpoint of the large coercive field property, we demonstrate that a mesoscopic ε-Fe2O3 bar magnet can be used as a magnetic force microscopy probe.
A two-dimensional cyanide-bridged Co-W bimetal assembly, (HO)[Co(4-bromopyridine){W(CN)}], was prepared. A synchrotron radiation (SR) X-ray single-crystal measurement shows that the crystal structure is monoclinic in the P2/c space group. Magnetic and spectroscopic measurements show that this assembly takes Co(S = 0)-W(S = 0) in the temperature range of 2-390 K. Such a wide temperature range Co-W phase has not been reported so far. First-principles calculations show that the band gap is composed of a W valence band and a Co conduction band. 785 nm light irradiation causes photo-induced magnetization with a Curie temperature of 27 K and a coercive field of 2000 Oe. The crystal structure of the photo-induced phase was determined to have larger lattice constants in the two-dimensional layer (bc-plane) by 3% compared to the original phase, which is due to the expansion of the distance of Co-N. The photo-induced phase returns to the original phase upon thermal treatment. First-principles calculations, and magnetic, and optical measurements prove that this photomagnetism is caused by the optical charge-transfer-induced spin transition from Co(S = 0)-W(S = 0) to Co(S = 3/2)-W(S = 1/2).
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