Droplet microfluidics in thermoplastics: device fabrication, droplet generation, and content manipulation using integrated electric and magnetic fields

Droplet microfluidic devices with integrated operations including droplet generation, electrical injection, and magnetic splitting were manufactured in thermoplastics.

Magnetism of Bismuth(III) Oxide-Based Compounds

209Bi NQR experiments, including analysis of zero-field line shapes, Zeeman-perturbed patterns and zero-field spin-echo envelopes were made to examine magnetic splitting of resonances revealed in the spectra of Main group element compounds of general composition BakBilAmOn (A=Al, В, Ge, Br, Cl). The results were explained assuming the existence in the compounds of ordered internal magnetic fields from 5 to 250 G which notably exceed those of nuclear magnetic moments. A dramatic (8−10-fold) increase in the resonance intensities, instead of broadening and fading, was observed for such compounds upon applying weak (below 500 Oe) external magnetic fields. The effect was shown to relate to the spin dynamics, namely, to the influence of external magnetic field on the nuclear spin-spin relaxation of the compounds with anomalous magnetic properties. In α-Bi2O3, paramagnetism depending on the thermal prehistory of a sample was found using SQUID-technique; magnetoelectric effect linear in magnetic field was also observed for this oxide.

Magnetic and Mössbauer Studies on Mixed-Metal Cyano-Bridged Compounds GunM1.5-n[Fe(CN)6]·xH2O(M=Ni, Gu)

Mixed-metal cyano-bridged compounds GunM1.5-n[Fe (CN)6]·xH2O(M=Ni, Gu) have been prepared by co-precipitation. The magnetic results show that the compound Cu0.75Ni0.75[Fe (CN)6]·xH2O is ferromagnetic, undergoes a paramagnetic to the ferromagnetic transition temperature at 21.77 K. The paramagnetic curie temperature θ, residual magnetization Mr, and coercive field Hcare different from bimetallic Prussian Blue analogues Ni3[Fe (CN)6]2·xH2O and Cu3[Fe (CN)6]2· xH2O. As to Cu3[Fe (CN)6]2·xH2O, the magnetic susceptibilities follow the Curie-Weiss law and the Weiss paramagnetic Curie temperature is 19.1 K. The Mossbauer spectrum at room temperature reveals a doublet with the isomer shift parameter (-0.03 mm/s) and quadrupole splitting (QS= 1.09 mm/s). As the sample was cooled down to 16K, the magnetic splitting phenomenon was detected in the compound.