Nano-Structured Magnetic Materials

Dear Colleagues,

As dimensions are reduced to the nanoscale, the properties of magnets can be tuned by controlling the shapes and phases of crystalline materials. The magnetization and magnetic anisotropy are functions of morphology and strain, and nanostructuring materials offers ways to control these properties. In addition, composite hard/soft materials can be created where magnetic coupling at interfaces mediates the exchange interactions. Understanding magnetic, chemical, and structural property relationships opens new opportunities for the manufacture of designer materials that have properties tuned for specific applications.

Modern computational methods can be applied to predict and model the fundamental properties of designer materials. However, sound experimental approaches must be applied to carefully investigate the resulting properties of synthesized materials. The challenge we face is to refine modeling, synthesis and characterization methods to improve the performance characteristics of magnetic materials.

This Special Issue of Metals will offer an opportunity for reporting research on the development of magnetic nanostructured materials to produce better materials for specific applications. We encourage submissions describing property-centric approaches where modeling is combined with experiments to refine our knowledge and work toward overcoming traditional performance barriers of bulk materials.

Prof. Dr. Gary Mankey
Guest Editor

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• Magnetic anisotropy
• High magnetization materials
• Permanent magnet materials
• Soft magnetic materials
• Exchange bias
• Exchange coupling
• Magnetic heterostructures and multilayers