Surface Effects in Magnetic Nanoparticles

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Modern Electronic Structure Theory for Complex Properties of Magnetic Materials

   • A. J. Freeman, Kohji Nakamura, Ruqian Wu

   Pages 1-43

3. Monte Carlo Studies of Surface and Interface Effects in Magnetic Nanoparticles

   • K. N. Trohidou

   Pages 45-74

4. Magnetic Nanoparticles as Many-Spin Systems

   • H. Kachkachi, D. A. Garanin

   Pages 75-104

5. From Finite Size and Surface Effects to Glassy Behaviour in Ferrimagnetic Nanoparticles

   • Amílcar Labarta, Xavier Batlle, Òscar Iglesias

   Pages 105-140

6. Effect of Surface Anisotropy on the Magnetic Resonance Properties of Nanosize Ferroparticles

   • Régine Perzynski, Yuriy L. Raikher

   Pages 141-187

7. Surface-Driven Effects on the Magnetic Behavior of Oxide Nanoparticles

   • R. H. Kodama, A. E. Berkowitz

   Pages 189-216

8. Exchange Coupling in Iron and Iron/Oxide Nanogranular Systems

   • L. Del Bianco, A. Hernando, D. Fiorani

   Pages 217-238

9. Surface and Interparticle Effects in Amorphous Magnetic Nanoparticles

   • R. D. Zysler, E. De Biasi, C. A. Ramos, D. Fiorani, H. Romero

   Pages 239-261

10. Magnetic anisotropy and magnetization reversal studied in individual nanoparticles

    • Wolfgang Wernsdorfer

    Pages 263-298

11. Back Matter

    Pages 299-299

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This volume is a selected collection of articles on different approaches to the investigation on surface effects on nanosized magnetic materials,with special emphasis to magnetic nanoparticles. The book is aimed to provide an overview of progress in the understanding of surface properties and surface driven effects in magnetic nanoparticles through recent results of different modelling, simulation and experimental investigations. Its intended audience is Ph.D. students and researchers in materials science. Magnetic nanoparticles have been the subject of continuous and growing interest, from both fundamental and technological points of view, in the last 50 years, since the pionering work of Louis Niel. Nanoparticles are unique physical objects with remarkable magnetic properties which differ greatly from their parent massive materials. They are due to finite size effects of the magnetic core, related to the reduced number of spins cooperatively linked within the particle, and to surface and interface effects, related to the lack of coordination for the surface ions, inducing broken exchange bonds which can result in frustration and spin disorder.

• cluster
• magnetic material
• magnetization
• materials science
• nanoparticle

• ISM-CNR, Rome, Italy

  Dino Fiorani

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