segunda-feira, 30 de maio de 2011

How to make a good DLS analysis of ferrite

Question: Is a cobalt ferrite a transparent or absorbent particle?

I am talking about a water dispersion of a Cobalt Ferrite ( #ferrofluid  ). An industrial product of Nanum. The ink industrial pattern use as standard this statment:

  • Black ink with carbon black is absorbent.
  • Another ink could be transparent or absorbent.
So they rated our dispersion as absorbent, but, using a  UV espectroscopy we saw that our ferrite is fifty to fifty transparent in 770nm (wavelength). We have a Malvern Zetatrac and we set ours samples as transparent and they (a big buyer) set as absorvent.

The results are incredibly diferrent as below:

transparent - sperical

absorsorvent - irregular


 Another thing: Should I consider this particles sphericals or irregulars?:


AFM print sample


TEM

I certainly believe in a spherical aproximation.

Regards,

Tarik Della Santina Mohallem
R&D Director
Nanum Nanotecnologia SA

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