Hard meets soft: tuning binary ferrofluids

2026/01/01 by Malika Khelfallah, Ekaterina V. Novak, Andrey A Kuznetsov +17 · 1 voice
Engineering · Materials Science · #Characterization and Applications of Magnetic Nanoparticles #Nanoparticle-Based Drug Delivery #Chemical and Physical Properties of Materials

paper · pdf · doi:10.1039/d5nr05218a

openalex publication_date 2026/01/01 · openalex created_date 2026/03/07 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/22

Abstract

Binary ferrofluids of hard–soft magnetic nanoflowers show composition-controlled hysteresis and aggregation. Experiments and simulations reveal how soft particles suppress chain growth while preserving heating-relevant magnetic losses.

Citations

• On the Theory of the Brownian Motion
• Magnetic Soft Materials and Robots

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