Meyer M, Raikher Yu L, Sandre O, Bée A, Cabuil V, Dupuis V, Licinio P, Perzynski R
Laboratoire des Liquides Ioniques et Interfaces Chargées UMR CNRS 7612, Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6), ESPCI, case 51, 4, place Jussieu, 75252 Paris Cedex 05, France.
Eur Phys J E Soft Matter. 2008 Aug;26(4):355-60. doi: 10.1140/epje/i2007-10338-5.
Magnetic and orientational behavior of nickel hydroxide nanoplatelets ionically stabilized in a liquid matrix is studied. Under an applied field the platelets orient their faces normal to its direction. For characterization of the individual behavior of dispersed and non-interacting particles three techniques are used: SAXS, SQUID and magneto-optics. Analysis reveals that nickel hydroxide in a platelet phase is paramagnetic with a pronounced anisotropy of the intrinsic susceptibility, the major component of which (in the direction normal to platelet face) exceeds the minor one by about 25%.