17 research outputs found
Shear modulus of isotropic ferrogels
We present results of theoretical study of magnetorheological effect in ferrogels with magnetizable spherical particles chaotically distributed in a current gel. To
avoid intuitive constructions with uncontrolled accuracy and adequacy, the analysis is done in the frames of the mathematically regular pair approximation. Our
results demonstrate non monotonic increase of the composite shear modulus with the applied magnetic field. This effect is stronger for the systems with the soft gel,
than for the relatively rigid ones.A.Z, L.I. and A.M are grateful to the program of the Ministry of
Education and Science of the Russian Federation, projects
02.A03.21.0006; 3.1438.2017/4.6; 3.5214.2017/6.7 as well as to the
Russian Fund of Basic Researches, projects 18-08-00178 and 19-52-
12028. M.T.L-L acknowledges financial support by project FIS2017-
85954-R (Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad,
MINECO, and Agencia Estatal de Investigación, AEI, Spain, cofunded by
Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional, FEDER, European Union)
Magnetism, FeS colloids, and Origins of Life
A number of features of living systems: reversible interactions and weak
bonds underlying motor-dynamics; gel-sol transitions; cellular connected
fractal organization; asymmetry in interactions and organization; quantum
coherent phenomena; to name some, can have a natural accounting via
interactions, which we therefore seek to incorporate by expanding the horizons
of `chemistry-only' approaches to the origins of life. It is suggested that the
magnetic 'face' of the minerals from the inorganic world, recognized to have
played a pivotal role in initiating Life, may throw light on some of these
issues. A magnetic environment in the form of rocks in the Hadean Ocean could
have enabled the accretion and therefore an ordered confinement of
super-paramagnetic colloids within a structured phase. A moderate H-field can
help magnetic nano-particles to not only overcome thermal fluctuations but also
harness them. Such controlled dynamics brings in the possibility of accessing
quantum effects, which together with frustrations in magnetic ordering and
hysteresis (a natural mechanism for a primitive memory) could throw light on
the birth of biological information which, as Abel argues, requires a
combination of order and complexity. This scenario gains strength from
observations of scale-free framboidal forms of the greigite mineral, with a
magnetic basis of assembly. And greigite's metabolic potential plays a key role
in the mound scenario of Russell and coworkers-an expansion of which is
suggested for including magnetism.Comment: 42 pages, 5 figures, to be published in A.R. Memorial volume, Ed
Krishnaswami Alladi, Springer 201