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Particle concentration effects on the ferrofluids based elastomers microstructure

M. BALASOIU1,2,* , I. BICA3, YU. L. RAIKHER4, E. B. DOKUKIN1, L. ALMASY5, B. VATZULIK3, A. I. KUKLIN1

Affiliation

  1. Joint Institute of Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia
  2. National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest, Romania
  3. West University of Timisoara, Department of Electricity and Magnetism, Timisoara, Romania
  4. Institute of Continuum Media Mechanics, Ural Branch of RAS, Perm, Russia
  5. Paul Sherrer Institute, Villigen, Switzerland

Abstract

Combination of magnetic and elastic properties of magnetic elastomer leads to diverse phenomena exhibited by this material in magnetic fields and opens new possibilities for technological applications. Various structures could be formed inside the material or the already existing structures would be changed due to the application of a magnetic field. A new rubber material containing magnetized anisotropic nanoclusters with the use of ferrofluids is proposed. By means of small angle neutron scattering specific variations of the structure factor and interparticle correlation length with the particle concentration and the magnetic field imposed during polymerization are found and discussed..

Keywords

Magnetic elastomers (ME), Polymerization, Ferrofluids, Small angle neutron scattering.

Citation

M. BALASOIU, I. BICA, YU. L. RAIKHER, E. B. DOKUKIN, L. ALMASY, B. VATZULIK, A. I. KUKLIN, Particle concentration effects on the ferrofluids based elastomers microstructure, Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials - Rapid Communications, 5, 5, May 2011, pp.514-517 (2011).

Submitted at: April 10, 2011

Accepted at: May 31, 2011