Investigation of magnetic defects in exfoliated and ball-milled graphite

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The recent interest in carbon-based materials like graphene stimulated a deeper analysis of the magnetism in graphite defects. In a previous µSR experiment we observed an unexpected muon depolarization in ball-milled and exfoliated graphite which may be ascribed either to a Korringa-like mechanism due to an increased carrier density induced by the high defect concentration (a model similar to the one suggested by S. F. J. Cox and co-workers for HOPG), or to depolarization from dangling bonds at zig-zag graphite edges (non-negligible in crystallites with size ~ 6 nm and according to ad hoc calculations). A continuation of the µSR experiment at temperatures lower than 1.4 K (sorption cryostat) and in the TF configuration of MuSR spectrometer will give valuable information on the origin, the magnitude and the dynamics of the muon depolarization in these systems.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24068649
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24068649
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Creator Professor Mauro Ricco; Dr Marcello Mazzani
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2012
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2009-06-04T09:47:40Z
Temporal Coverage End 2009-06-11T07:01:05Z