Institute of Electronics, Information Engineering and Telecommunications (IEIIT), National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Turin, Italy.
PLoS One. 2022 Sep 23;17(9):e0274676. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0274676. eCollection 2022.
The recent development of core-shell nanoparticles which combine strain coupled magnetostrictive and piezoelectric phases, has attracted a lot of attention due to their ability to yield strong magnetoelectric effect even at room temperature, thus making them a promising tool to enable biomedical applications. To fully exploit their potentialities and to adapt their use to in vivo applications, this study analyzes, through a numerical approach, their magnetoelectric behavior, shortly quantified by the magnetoelectric coupling coefficient (αME), thus providing an important milestone for the characterization of the magnetoelectric effect at the nanoscale. In view of recent evidence showing that αME is strongly affected by both the applied magnetic field DC bias and AC frequency, this study implements a nonlinear model, based on magnetic hysteresis, to describe the responses of two different core-shell nanoparticles to various magnetic field excitation stimuli. The proposed model is also used to evaluate to which extent realistic variables such as core diameter and shell thickness affect the electric output. Results prove that αME of 80 nm cobalt ferrite-barium titanate (CFO-BTO) nanoparticles with a 60:40 ratio is equal to about 0.28 V/cm∙Oe corresponding to electric fields up to about 1000 V/cm when a strong DC bias is applied. However, the same electric output can be obtained even in absence of DC field with very low AC fields, by exploiting the hysteretic characteristics of the same composites. The analysis of core and shell dimension is as such to indicate that, to maximize αME, larger core diameter and thinner shell nanoparticles should be preferred. These results, taken together, suggest that it is possible to tune magnetoelectric nanoparticles electric responses by controlling their composition and their size, thus opening the opportunity to adapt their structure on the specific application to pursue.
最近开发的核壳纳米粒子结合了应变耦合磁致伸缩和压电相,由于它们在室温下就能产生强磁电效应,因此引起了广泛关注,这使它们成为实现生物医学应用的有前途的工具。为了充分发挥它们的潜力并使其适应体内应用,本研究通过数值方法分析了它们的磁电行为,通过磁电耦合系数(αME)简要量化,从而为纳米尺度上磁电效应的表征提供了重要的里程碑。鉴于最近的证据表明,αME 强烈受到施加的直流磁场偏置和交流频率的影响,本研究基于磁滞实现了一种非线性模型,以描述两种不同的核壳纳米粒子对各种磁场激励刺激的响应。所提出的模型还用于评估核心直径和壳厚度等实际变量对电输出的影响程度。结果证明,具有 60:40 比例的 80nm 钴铁氧体-钛酸钡(CFO-BTO)纳米粒子的αME 约等于 0.28V/cm·Oe,当施加强直流偏置时,对应的电场高达约 1000V/cm。然而,通过利用相同复合材料的磁滞特性,即使在没有直流场的情况下,也可以通过施加非常低的交流场来获得相同的电输出。对核心和壳层尺寸的分析表明,为了最大化αME,应优先选择较大的核心直径和较薄的壳层纳米粒子。这些结果表明,可以通过控制磁电纳米粒子的组成和尺寸来调节其电响应,从而为根据特定应用调整其结构提供了机会。
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