Boosting Magnetoelectric Effect in Polymer-Based Nanocomposites.

Alexander Omelyanchik,Valentina Antipova,Dmitry Murzin,Christina Gritsenko,Andrei V Turutin,Valeria Kolesnikova,Valeria Rodionova,Kateryna Levada,Davide Peddis,Yilin Han,Elena N Kozlova,Mikhail D Malinkovich,М И Воронова ,А А Амиров ,T S Ilina ,И В Кубасов ,A M Kislyuk ,Д А Киселев ,Maxim V Silibin ,L.a Makarova ,Yu N Parkhomenko

doi:10.3390/nano11051154

Abstract

Polymer-based magnetoelectric composite materials have attracted a lot of attention due to their high potential in various types of applications as magnetic field sensors, energy harvesting, and biomedical devices. Current researches are focused on the increase in the efficiency of magnetoelectric transformation. In this work, a new strategy of arrangement of clusters of magnetic nanoparticles by an external magnetic field in PVDF and PFVD-TrFE matrixes is proposed to increase the voltage coefficient (αME) of the magnetoelectric effect. Another strategy is the use of 3-component composites through the inclusion of piezoelectric BaTiO3 particles. Developed strategies allow us to increase the αME value from ~5 mV/cm·Oe for the composite of randomly distributed CoFe2O4 nanoparticles in PVDF matrix to ~18.5 mV/cm·Oe for a composite of magnetic particles in PVDF-TrFE matrix with 5%wt of piezoelectric particles. The applicability of such materials as bioactive surface is demonstrated on neural crest stem cell cultures.

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IntroductionMultiferroics are a class of material where magnetism and ferroelectricity coexist in coupling and synergy
Field dependence of magnetization recorded at 300 K for powder NPs shows hysteretic behavior typical for ferrimagnetic nanoparticles in the blocked state (Figure S2a)
We have prepared and studied a set of samples of polymer-based nanocomposites having magnetic and magnetoelectric properties owing to the inclusion of magnetic nanoparticles in piezopolymers

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Introduction

Multiferroics are a class of material where magnetism and ferroelectricity coexist in coupling and synergy. The development of new composite multiferroic materials with creativecommons.org/licenses/by/ 4.0/). The direct magnetoelectric (ME) effect is the magnetically tunable polarization, change of the value or direction of electrical polarization under the applied magnetic field. Those unique properties are advance for the application of ME composites in energy transfer/harvesting [4,5,6], magnetic field sensors [5,7,8] and biomagnetic field sensors [9,10]

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