Selective magnetometry of superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles in liquids

Juliusz Kuciakowski; Angelika Kmita; Dorota Lachowicz; Magdalena Wytrwal-Sarna; Krzysztof Pitala; Sara Lafuerza; Dorota Koziej; Amélie Juhin; Marcin Sikora

doi:10.1039/D0NR02866E

Selective magnetometry of superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles in liquids†

Juliusz Kuciakowski,

^ab Angelika Kmita,

^a Dorota Lachowicz,

^a Magdalena Wytrwal-Sarna,

^a Krzysztof Pitala,

^ab Sara Lafuerza,

^c Dorota Koziej,

^d Amélie Juhin

^e and Marcin Sikora

*^a

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^a AGH University of Science and Technology, Academic Centre for Materials and Nanotechnology, Al. Mickiewicza 30, 30-059 Krakow, Poland
E-mail: marcin.sikora@agh.edu.pl

^b AGH University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Physics and Applied Computer Science, Al. Mickiewicza 30, 30-059 Krakow, Poland

^c European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, CS40220, 38043 Grenoble Cedex 9, France

^d Institute of Nanostructure- and Solid State Physics, Center for Hybrid Nanostructures, University of Hamburg, Luruper Chaussee 149, 22607 Hamburg, Germany

^e Institut de Minéralogie, de Physique des Matériaux et de Cosmochimie (IMPMC), Sorbonne Université, UMR CNRS 7590, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, 4 Place Jussieu, 75005 Paris, France

Abstract

We show that the properties of superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles suspended in liquids can be effectively studied using Magnetic Circular Dichroism in Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering. Analysis of the spectral shape and magnetic contrast produced by this experiment enables an assessment of the site distribution and magnetic state of metal ions in the spinel phase. The selective magnetization profile of particles as derived from the field dependence of dichroism empowers an estimation of particle size distribution. Furthermore, the new proposed methodology discriminates sizes that are below the detection limits of X-ray and light scattering probes and that are difficult to spot in TEM.

This article is part of the themed collection: Spectroscopy and scattering for chemistry

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/D0NR02866E
Article type: Communication
Submitted: 11 apr 2020
Accepted: 10 jul 2020
First published: 03 aug 2020
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Nanoscale, 2020,12, 16420-16426

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J. Kuciakowski, A. Kmita, D. Lachowicz, M. Wytrwal-Sarna, K. Pitala, S. Lafuerza, D. Koziej, A. Juhin and M. Sikora, Nanoscale, 2020, 12, 16420 DOI: 10.1039/D0NR02866E

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