Geometric Frustration and Long-range Ordering Induced by Surface Pressure Oscillation in a Langmuir Blodgett Monolayer of Magnetic Soft Spheres

Zainab O. Makinde, Nadine J. Van Der Heijden, Daniel Clyde, Seong Nam, Penelope J. Brothers, Jenny Malmström, Simon Granville, Laura J. Domigan, Duncan J. McGillivray, David E. Williams*

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    Abstract

    As a step toward the bottom-up construction of magnonic systems, this paper demonstrates the use of a large-amplitude surface-pressure annealing technique to generate 2-D order in a LangmuirBlodgett monolayer of magnetic soft spheres comprising a surfactant-encapsulated polyoxometalate. The films show a distorted square lattice interpreted as due to geometric frustration caused by 2-D confinement between soft walls, one being the air interface and the other the aqueous subphase. Hysteresis and relaxation phenomena in the 2-D layers are suggested to be due to folding and time-dependent interpenetration of surfactant chains.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)10150-10158
    Number of pages9
    JournalLangmuir
    Volume37
    Issue number33
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2021

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