Temperature oscillations of magnetization observed in nanofluid ferromagnetic graphite

J Phys Condens Matter. 2009 Dec 2;21(49):495303. doi: 10.1088/0953-8984/21/49/495303. Epub 2009 Nov 12.

Abstract

We report on unusual magnetic properties observed for nanofluid room temperature ferromagnetic graphite (with an average particle size of [Formula: see text] nm). More precisely, the measured magnetization exhibits a low temperature anomaly (attributed to the manifestation of finite size effects below the quantum temperature [Formula: see text]) as well as pronounced temperature oscillations above T = 50 K (attributed to manifestation of the hard-sphere type of pair correlations between ferromagnetic particles in the nanofluid).