Remarkable magnetic enhancement of type-M hexaferrite of barium in polystyrene polymer

Abstract

We demonstrate that the promising effect of inclusion of single magnetic-domain type-M hexaferrite of barium (BaM) particles in polystyrene (PS) polymer (BaM/PS weight ratio = 2/1). The results show that the coercivity of BaM particles remarkably increases from 714 to 3772 Oe and remanence increases from 2.07 to 5.41 emu.g-1 when they embedded into PS. Moreover, magnetic coercivity and squareness of the BaM-PS are significantly larger, and is comparable with corresponding values of other BaM-polymer composites. Therefore, BaM-PS composite enforce itself as the modern potential materials with tendency of replacing existing composite materials in several applications.