A. U. B. Wolter

A carbon-wrapped nanoscaled thermometer for temperature control in biological environments

AIMS A carbon-wrapped nanoscaled thermometer for a contactless temperature control in biological systems on the cellular level is presented. MATERIALS & METHODS The thermometer is based on multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) filled with materials with strongly temperature-dependent nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) parameters. The NMR frequency shift and relaxation time were measured in cuprous-iodide-filled CNTs at different temperatures. RESULTS The experimental data indicate a pronounced temperature dependence of the NMR parameters, thereby realizing the nanoscaled thermometer. CONCLUSION This study is a proof-of-concept that the functionalized CNTs can be used as a contactless thermometer in biomedical applications.

Specific heat and upper critical fields in KFe2As2 single crystals

We report low-temperature specific heat measurements for high-quality single crystalline KFe2As2 (T_c about 3.5 K). The investigated zero-field specific heat data yields an unusually large nominal Sommerfeld coefficient gamma_n of 94(3) mJ/mol K^2 which is however significantly affected by extrinsic contributions as evidenced by a sizable residual linear specific heat and various theoretical considerations including also an analysis of Kadowaki-Woods relations. Then KFe2As2 should be classified as a weak to intermediately strong coupling superconductor with a total electron-boson coupling constant lambda_tot near 1 (including a calculated weak electron-phonon coupling constant of lambda_el-ph =0.17. From specific heat and ac susceptibility studies in external magnetic fields the magnetic phase diagram has been constructed. We confirm the high anisotropy of the upper critical fields B_c2(T) ranging from a factor of 5 near T_c to a slightly reduced value approaching T=0 for fields B || ab

Fishtail effect and vortex dynamics in LiFeAs single crystals

and || c and show that their ratio Gamma slightly exceeds the mass anisotropy of 4.35 derived from our full-relativistic LDA-band structure calculations. Its slight reduction when approaching T=0 is not a consequence of Pauli-limiting as in less perfect samples but point likely to a multiband effect. We also report irreversibility field data obtained from ac susceptibility measurements. The double-maximum in the T-dependence of its imaginary part for fields B || c indicates a peak-effect in the T-dependence of critical currents.

Ba 2 YIrO 6 : A cubic double perovskite material with Ir 5 + ions

We investigate the fishtail effect, critical current density (

Phase diagram of the iron arsenide superconductors Ca(Fe1−xCox)2As2(0⩽x⩽0.2)

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Single molecule magnet with an unpaired electron trapped between two lanthanide ions inside a fullerene

), and vortex dynamics in LiFeAs single crystals. The sample exhibits a second peak (SP) in the magnetization loop only with the field

Specific heat of Ca0.32Na0.68Fe2As2 single crystals: Unconventional s+/- multiband superconductivity with intermediate repulsive interband coupling and sizable attractive intraband couplings

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Flux dynamics and avalanches in the 122 pnictide superconductor Ba0.65Na0.35Fe2As2.

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Magnetic properties and exchange integrals of the frustrated chain cuprate linarite PbCuSO4(OH)2

axis. We calculate a reasonably high