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Mi, Y., Zhang, X., Luo, J., Zhou, S., Zhang, H., Cheng, J. and Liu, F. (2006) Hydrothermal Fabrication of Spindle-Type α-Fe2O3 Nanoparticle and Its Magnetic Property. Proceedings of the 1st IEEE International Conference on Nano/Micro Engineered and Molecular Systems, Zhuhai, 18-21 January 2006, 519-522.

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• TITLE: Diamagnetic Behavior in Nanoparticle Hematite?

  AUTHORS: Petar A. Petrov, Arfan Ali, David K. Potter

  KEYWORDS: Diamagnetic, Hematite, Nanoparticle, Magnetic Hysteresis, Magnetic Susceptibility

  JOURNAL NAME: Journal of Modern Physics, Vol.8 No.7, June 2, 2017

  ABSTRACT: A paper by Mi et al. [1] suggested that certain nano-sized hematite (α-Fe2O3) particles had diamagnetic properties at room temperature. Since diamagnetic behavior is not a property normally attributed to hematite particles (hematite is generally regarded as a canted antiferromagnetic material at room temperature) we decided to test the validity of the suggestions in [1] by performing magnetic susceptibility and magnetic hysteresis measurements on a series of hematite nanoparticles with average sizes of 8 nm, 30 nm and 40 nm in diameter. We initially considered two possible explanations for the apparent diamagnetic behavior of the nanoparticles in [1]: either 1) the hematite nanoparticles themselves exhibited this unusual diamagnetic behavior, or 2) the diamagnetic response was simply the signal created by a diamagnetic dispersant that was overriding a weak positive magnetic susceptibility signal of the hematite nanoparticles. Our experiments strongly suggested the latter explanation that the apparent “diamagnetic” behavior seen in [1] was caused by a diamagnetic dispersant dominating the magnetic properties of the dispersed hematite nanoparticles.