Soft hydrogel particles show a rich structural and mechanical behaviour compared to hard particles, both in bulk and when confined in two dimensions at a fluid interface. Moreover, encapsulation into hydrogel shells makes it possible to transfer the tunability of soft steric interactions to hard nanoparticle cores, which bear interest for applications, e.g. in terms of optical, magnetic and rei...

In the present research, amorphous Fe73.5Si13.5B9Nb3Cu1 Finemet foils, 21-26µm in thickness and 5mm in width, were prepared by Planar Flow Casting (PFC) process. Wound cores of amorphous Finemet foils were simultaneously annealed and heat treated at 540°C for 60, 120 and 240 minutes in steam and air flow to form oxide insulating coating layer on both surfaces of the foils. The structure of nano...

Soft magnetic composite (SMC) materials and their application in electrical machines have undergone significant development in the past decade. The major advantages of the materials include isotropic magnetic and thermal properties, very low eddy current loss and relatively low total core loss at medium and higher frequencies, and nearly net-shape low cost fabrication process with good toleranc...

By coupling two different magnetic materials inside a single composite nanoparticle, the shape of the magnetic hysteresis can be engineered to meet the requirements of specific applications. Sandwich-like composite nanoparticles composed of a hard-magnetic Ba-hexaferrite (BaFe12O19) platelet core in between two soft-magnetic spinel iron oxide maghemite (γ-Fe2O3) layers were synthesized using a ...

A thin, insulating layer with high electrical resistivity is vital to achieving high performance of powder magnetic cores. Using layer-by-layer deposition of silica nanosheets or colloidal silica over insulating layers composed of strontium phosphate and boron oxide, we succeeded in fabricating insulating layers with high electrical resistivity on iron powder particles, which were subsequently ...

Nano-composite permanent magnetic material is a new type permanent magnetic material, and it is the synthesis of soft and hard magnetic phase within nanoscale. On the basis of exchange coupling hard magnetizing theory, nano-composite permanent magnetic material can at the same time have high residual magnetization intensity of soft magnetic phase and high coerccivity of hard magnetic phase, and...