PREFACE INTRODUCTION PART I: Fundamental Concepts in Magnetism and Magnetic Materials CHAPTER 1: The Magnetic Field 1.1 Overview and Historical Background 1.2 The Magnetic Field of a Current Carrying Wire 1.3 Solenoids and Uniform Magnetic Fields 1.4 The Lorentz Force and Cyclotron Motion 1.5 Magnetic Force on a Current Carrying Wire 1.6 The Magnetic Dipole Moment 1.6.

1 Torque Considerations in a Uniform Magnetic Field 1.6.2 Energy Considerations in a Uniform Magnetic Field 1.6.3 Force Considerations in a Nonuniform Magnetic Field 1.7 Time Varying Currents and Maxwell''s Equations 1.8 Energy Stored in a Magnetic Field CHAPTER 2: Diamagnetism and Paramagnetism 2.1 Langevin Diamagnetism 2.

2 Orbital and Spin Angular Momentum 2.2.1 Concepts from Classical Mechanics 2.2.2 Concepts from Quantum Mechanics 2.3 Atomic Magnetic Moments 2.4 Bound Currents and the Auxiliary Field 2.5 Magnetic Susceptibility 2.

6 The Curie Law 2.7 Langevin Paramagnetism 2.8 Quantum Theory of Paramagnetism 2.9 The Effect of Crystalline Fields CHAPTER 3: Long-Range Magnetic Order 3.1 The Curie-Weiss Law and the Weiss Molecular Field 3.2 The Exchange Interaction 3.3 Direct Exchange 3.3.

1 Localized Moments and the Heisenberg Exchange Hamiltonian 3.3.2 Itinerant Electron Theory of Ferromagnetism 3.3.3 Antiferromagnetism 3.3.4 Ferrimagnetism 3.4 Indirect Exchange 3.

4.1 Superexchange 3.4.2 The RKKY Interaction 3.5 Magnetic Microstructure 3.5.1 The Hysteresis Loop 3.5.

2 The Demagnetizing Field 3.5.3 Magnetic Domains and Magnetic Domain Wall Formation 3.5.4 Magnetocrystalline Anisotropy and Easy Axes of Magnetization 3.5.5 Magnetostatic Energy and Shape Anisotropy 3.5.

6 Magnetostriction and Magnetoelastic Energy CHAPTER 4: Single Magnetic Domain Particles 4.1 Critical Particle Size for Single Domain Behavior 4.2 Coercivity of Uniaxial Small Particles 4.3 Coherent Spin Rotation of Stoner and Wohlfarth Particles 4.4 Non-coherent Spin Rotation Modes 4.5 Size Dependence of Coercivity 4.6 Superparamagnetism 4.7 Collective Magnetic Excitations 4.

8 Interparticle Interactions 4.9 Finite-Size Effects and Characteristic Length Scales 4.10 Surface Anisotropy 4.11 Core/Shell Nanostructures 4.12 Exchange Anisotropy 4.13 Magnetic Dimensionality PART II: Production of Magnetic Nanoparticles CHAPTER 5: Top-down Synthesis by Physical Methods 5.1 Particle Nucleation and Growth 5.1.

1 Homogeneous Nucleation 5.1.2 Heterogeneous Nucleation 5.2 Gas-Phase Synthesis of Magnetic Nanoparticles 5.2.1 Synthesis of Bare 3d-transition Metal Clusters by Pulsed Laser Ablation 5.2.2 Synthesis of Ferromagnetic Nanoparticles by Vaporization-Deposition Techniques 5.

3 Synthesis of Magnetic Nanoparticles by High Energy Ball Milling CHAPTER 6: Bottom-up Synthesis by Chemical Methods 6.1 Particle Nucleation and Growth in Solution 6.2 Cluster Stabilization by Terminal Ligation 6.3 Particle Stabilization by Surfactant Molecules 6.4 Production of Metal Particles by Chemical Reduction of Metal Salts 6.5 Preparation of Metal and Metal Alloy Nanoparticles in Polyol Media 6.6 Preparation of Monodispersed Magnetic Nanoparticles Using Microemulsions 6.7 Synthesis of Metallic Nanoparticles in Inverse Micelles 6.

8 Preparation of Iron Nanoparticles by the Thermal Decomposition of Iron Pentacarbonyl 6.8.1 Thermolytic Decomposition of Fe(CO)5 6.8.2 Sonochemical Decomposition of Fe(CO)5 6.9 Synthesis of Iron Oxide and Ferrite Magnetic Nanoparticles 6.9.1 Co-precipitation Reactions 6.

9.2 Controlled Oxidation of Metal Iron Particles CHAPTER 7: Biogenic Magnetic Nanoparticles 7.1 Biomineralization of Iron 7.2 Formation of Magnetic Nanoparticles by Bacteria 7.2.1 Physico-chemical Control of Fe3O4 Crystal Growth within Magnetosomes 7.3 Crystalline and Magnetic Properties of Magnetosomes Compared to Synthetic Magnetite Particles 7.4 Ferritin and its Dual Function in Biological Iron Regulation 7.

4.1 Structure of the Ferritin Molecule 7.4.2 Nature of the Ferrihydrite Core 7.4.3 Recombinant HuHF and the Role of the Ferroxidase Center 7.5 &n.