The effect of clustering induced by albumin coating on the magnetic behaviour of ultra-small MnFe2O4 nanoparticles has been systematically investigated and compared with that in pure Mn ferrite nanoparticle dense assembly, using a mesoscopic scale approach and numerical simulations reproducing the experimental findings well. Our results provide evidence that in the coated system, the interplay between intra-particle and intra-cluster exchange interactions strongly affects the exchange bias and coercive field values, with the dipolar interactions playing a minor role. Instead, the albumin coating does not affect the thermal stability of the observed superspin glass phase, the freezing temperature being similar in the coated and uncoated systems.
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Vasilakaki, M., Ntallis, N., Fiorani, D., Peddis, D., & Trohidou, K. N. (2022). Effect of albumin coating on the magnetic behavior of Mn ferrite nanoclusters. Nanoscale Advances, 4(20), 4366–4372. https://doi.org/10.1039/d2na00458e
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