Song, Jiaxin, Dai, Zhiquan, Wang, Shanling, Kermani, Milad, Gao, Shuai, Wen, Jiqiu, Gu, Aiqun, He, Yi, Grasso, Salvatore, Corrias, Anna, and others. (2022) Unusual magnetic transition and enhanced diamagnetism in highly oriented pyrolytic graphite with long-range stacking-order. Diamond and Related Materials, . ISSN 0925-9635. (doi:10.1016/ j .diamond.2022. l 09163) (KAR id:95415)
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/ j .diamond.2022. l 09163 |
Abstract
The recent observations of unusual superconductive effects in highly oriented pyrolytic graphite (HOPG) and twisted bi-layer, tri-layer and multilayer graphene materials have attracted an important attention. In this work we present a novel investigation on the relationship between structural ordering and magnetism in HOPG. Orientation dependent X-ray diffraction and temperature dependent magnetometry allowed for the identification of those HOPG samples exhibiting a long-range ordering along the c-axis. ZFC and FC magnetic curves acquired from T ~ 2 K to 300 K revealed a significant temperature-dependent variation of the diamagnetic component. By analyzing the ZFC/FC magnetic-curves (through magnetic moment subtraction methods) we identify the presence of a weak magnetic transition in the T range from 200 K to 2 K. The possible origin of the observed magnetization-trend is interpreted in relation to contributions arising from 1) disorder-rich locally-twisted-interfaces and 2) those internal graphitic sublattices exhibiting negative thermal expansion. Interestingly, magnetization against field measurements acquired at T ~ 50 K (max. field of 150 Oe) revealed the presence of a weak ferromagnetic-like hysteresis. Disappearance of the unusual ZFC/FC signal-splitting was instead found in those magnetic curves acquired from other HOPG samples with higher degree of disorder (short-range-ordering along the c-axis). This second category of samples was found to exhibit a disorder-mediated re-entrant spin-glass-like ferromagnetic behavior.
Item Type: | Article |
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DOI/Identification number: | 10.1016/ j .diamond.2022. l 09163 |
Subjects: | Q Science |
Divisions: | Divisions > Division of Natural Sciences > Chemistry and Forensics |
Funders: | National Natural Science Foundation of China (https://ror.org/01h0zpd94) |
Depositing User: | Anna Corrias |
Date Deposited: | 13 Jun 2022 14:00 UTC |
Last Modified: | 04 Jun 2024 23:00 UTC |
Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/95415 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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