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The study of system of magnetic nano-particle has received increasing attention recently both because of the novel physical concepts involved and also because of their vast potential for application. The influence of background material…
Magnetite ferrite (Fe3O4) nanoparticles have attracted considerable interest due to their tunable physico-chemical properties and relevance in functional materials. In this work, uncoated Fe3O4 nanoparticles and surface-modified Fe3O4…
Core-shell nanoparticles, particularly those having a gold core, have emerged as a highly promising class of materials due to their unique optical and thermal properties, which underpin a wide range of applications in photothermal therapy,…
In addition to the self-governing properties, tiny metallic colloids are the building blocks of larger particles. This topic has been the subject of many studies. This work discusses the results of three different experiments. Attained…
Gold nanoclusters have been the focus of numerous computational studies but an atomistic understanding of their structural and dynamical properties at finite temperature is far from satisfactory. To address this deficiency, we investigate…
Magnetic nanoparticles (MnPs) are relevant to a wide range of applications including high density information storage and magnetic resonance imaging to name but a few. Among the materials available to prepare MnPs, FePt is attracting…
The structure, dynamics and stability of Fe-Pt nanoparticles have been investigated using DFT-based techniques: total energy calculations and DFT molecular dynamics. The investigated systems included multi-shell and disordered nanoparticles…
We prepared very high-coercivity cobalt ferrite nanoparticles using short-time high-energy mechanical milling. After the milling process, the coercivity of the nanoparticles reached 3.75 kOe - a value almost five times higher than that…
We explore the influence of the nanoporous structure on the thermal relaxation of electrons and holes excited by ultrashort laser pulses ($\sim 7$ fs) in thin gold films. Plasmon decay into hot electron-hole pairs results in the generation…
Gold nanoparticle assemblies show a strong plasmonic response due to the combined effects of the individual nanoparticles' plasmon modes. Increasing the number of nanoparticles in structured assemblies leads to significant shifts in the…
The use of gold nanoparticles for hyperthermia therapy in near infrared (NIR) spectral regions has catalysed substantial research efforts due to the potential impact in clinical therapy applications. However, the photoscattering effect…
We present a study showing cooperative behavior of light emitting quantum dots at room temperature, with large increases in radiative decay rates and efficiencies, in the presence of small gold nanoparticles (1.5 - 4 nm radii) in low…
The ability to partially oxidize methane at low temperatures and pressures would have important environmental and economic applications. Although methane oxidation on gold nanoparticles has been observed experimentally, our density…
Structural, magnetic and electronic structural properties of Ni0.2Cd0.3Fe2.5-xAlxO4 ferrites nanoparticles have been studied x-ray diffraction (XRD), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), dc magnetization, and near edge x-ray absorption…
We model shell formation of core-shell noble metal nanoparticles. A recently developed kinetic Monte Carlo approach is utilized to reproduce growth morphologies realized in recent experiments on core-shell nanoparticle synthesis, which…
Co2FeAl (CFA) nanoparticles (NPs) of different sizes were synthesized by chemical route. The effect of the size of NPs upon the structure and magnetization compared to its bulk counterpart was investigated. The structure and composition…
The formation of gold nanowires in vacuum at room temperature reveals a periodic spectrum of exceptionally stable diameters. This is identified as shell structure similar to that which was recently discovered for alkali metals at low…
We present here an original process combining top-down and bottom-up approaches by annealing a thin gold film evaporated onto a hole template made by etching a PS-PMMA copolymer film. Such process allows a better control of the gold…