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Magnetic Anisotropy in the Radula of Chiton |
ZHAO Jian-Gao1;QIAN Xia1;LIU Wei1;LIU Chuan-lin2;ZHAN Wen-Shan1 |
1State Key Laboratory of Magnetism, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080
2Department of Bio-chemistry, Yantai University, Yantai 264005
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ZHAO Jian-Gao, QIAN Xia, LIU Wei et al 2000 Chin. Phys. Lett. 17 542-543 |
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Abstract Radular teeth of chitons were studied by using magnetic torque-meter and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). The magnetic torque curves give clear evidence of presence of strong uni-axial magnetic anisotropy The easy axis is along the length direction of tonguelike radula. The TEM pattern shows that long chip-like magnetite nano-scaled particles packed in the radular teeth with both uni-axial shape anisotropy and magneto-crystalline anisotropy.
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Published: 01 July 2000
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