CPBCI 2019

2-6 June 2019

Eger, Hungary
The impact of structural inhomogeneities, super-
paramagnetism and central attraction, on the equilibrium
structure of magnetic filaments
D. Mostarac1, E. Novak2, P. A. Sanchez1,2, O. Gang3, S. Kantorovich1,2
1
University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
deniz.mostarac@univie.ac.at
2
Ural Federal University, Ekaterinburg, Russia
3
Columbia University, New York, USA

ABSTRACT

Construction of smart materials with sophisticated magnetic response by incorporating magnetic

particles (MNP’s) within permanently cross-linked structures, opens up the possibility for
synthesis of highly magneto-responsive systems.[1] Construction of appropriate magnetic
filaments (MF’s polymer-like structures in which magnetic colloids are represented as
monomers) has recently been made possible using DNA origami technology [2,3].

Structural inhomogeneities alter the equilibrium properties and the magnetic response of MF’s.
Coiling and persistence length of MF’s depend on the magnetic particle distributions, along with
temperature and applied magnetic field. Using MD simulations, we compare the structural
properties and magnetic response of various configurations of MF’s.

We extensively discuss the projection of magnetic moments along the orientating magnetic field
direction, on both the filament and colloid level. Furthermore, we contextualize the implications
of this within an exhaustive, comparative analysis of the field dependent, structural behavior of
MF’s, for ferromagnetic and superparamagnetic colloids within different crosslinking scenarios.
Finally, we scrutinize the effects of a central attraction potential (i.e. inclusion of Van der Waals
forces) on the dynamics of the filaments and their magnetic response.

REFERENCES
[1] Sánchez, P. A., et al. Macromolecules 48.20 (2015): 7658-7669.
[2] Liu, W., et al. Nature chemistry 8.9 (2016): 867.
[3] Tian, Y., et al. Nature materials 15.6 (2016): 654.