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The magnetism of most biological systems has not been characterized, which directly impedes our understanding of many magnetic field-related phenomena, including magnetoreception and magnetic bio-effects. Here we measured the magnetic…
We found that the AYFFF self-assemblies in the chloride solution of some divalent cations ($Zn^{2+}, Mg^{2+},$ and $Cu^{2+}$) display super strong paramagnetism, which may approach the mass susceptibility of ferromagnetism. We attribute the…
We experimentally demonstrated that the AYFFF self-assemblies adsorbed with various monovalent cations (Na+, K+, and Li+) show unexpectedly super strong paramagnetism. The key to the super strong paramagnetism lies in the hydrated…
A well-known property of aromatic molecules is their highly anisotropic response to the presence of an external magnetic field: the component of their magnetic susceptibility parallel to the field is generally much larger than the remaining…
The self-assembly of submerged cold-plasma-treated polyethylene beads is reported. The plasma-treated immersed millimetrically-sized polyethylene beads formed well-ordered 2D quasi-crystalline structures. The submerged floating of light…
We derive the phase structure and thermodynamics of ferromagnets consisting of elementary magnets carrying the adjoint representation of $SU(N)$ and coupled through two-body quadratic interactions. Such systems have a continuous $SU(N)$…
We calculate the effect of local magnetic moments on the electron-phonon coupling in BaFe$_{2}$As$_{2}+\delta$ using the density functional perturbation theory. We show that the magnetism enhances the total electron-phonon coupling by $\sim…
Ferromagnetism (FM) is the cornerstone of permanent magnets, data storage and other technologies that directly impact our everyday life by their implementation in standard applications and devices. When downscaling bulk materials into their…
In this paper, we present a study of the electric transport properties of small discrete rings with $3\leq N\leq 6$ sites and $N_{e}<2N$ electrons, which can be seen as a simplified version of real aromatic molecules. In particular, the…
We experimentally demonstrate that some commonly used materials such as cellulose acetate and chitin which are traditionally considered to be non-magnetic show super strong paramagnetism in aqueous solutions under ambient conditions when…
Recent experiments have identified peptides with adhesion affinity for GaAs and Si surfaces. Here we use all-atom Monte Carlo (MC) simulations with implicit solvent to investigate the behavior in aqueous solution of four such peptides, all…
Magnetic measurements on optimally doped single crystals of BaFe$_2$(As$_{1-x}$P$_{x}$)$_2$ ($x\approx0.35$) with magnetic fields applied along different crystallographic axes were performed under pressure, enabling the pressure evolution…
The last two decades have witnessed various experiments reporting very unusual magnetic properties of ensembles of gold nanoparticles surrounded by organic ligands, including ferromagnetic, paramagnetic, or (large) diamagnetic responses.…
The observation of non-bulk superconductivity with an unexpectedly high onset transition temperature Tc up to ~ 49 K in non-superconducting single crystalline CaFe2As2 upon rare-earth doping has raised interesting questions concerning its…
We find that thin peptide films and coatings doped with metallic nanoparticles are more stable due to the role of electromagnetic fluctuations. It is shown that for the doped freestanding in vacuum peptide film the Casimir attraction…
For more than a century, electricity and magnetism have been believed to always exhibit inextricable link due to the symmetry in electromagnetism. At the interface, polar groups that have polar charges, are indispensable to be considered,…
We have performed a density functional theory study of the possible layered geometries occurring after dehydrogenation of a self-assembled monolayer (SAM) of biphenyl-thiol molecules (BPTs) adsorbed on a Au(111), as it has been…
We investigate the magnetic properties of spin-$1/2$ charged Fermi gases with ferromagnetic coupling via mean-field theory, and find the interplay among the paramagnetism, diamagnetism and ferromagnetism. Paramagnetism and diamagnetism…
Light-matter strong coupling in the vacuum limit has been shown to enhance material properties over the past decade. Oxide nanoparticles are known to exhibit weak ferromagnetism due to vacancies in the lattice. Here we report the 700-fold…
The observation of unusually large ferromagnetism in the nanoparticles of doped oxides and enhanced ferromagnetic tendencies in manganite nanoparticles have been in focus recently. For the transition metal-doped oxide nanoparticles a…