Title: Tailoring the induced magnetism in carbon-based and non-traditional inorganic nanomaterials

Authors: Antonis N. Andriotis, R. Michael Sheetz, N.N. Lathiotakis, Madhu Menon

Addresses: Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser, FORTH, P.O. Box 1527, 71110 Heraklio, Crete, Greece. ' Center for Computational Sciences, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506-0045, USA. ' Institut fuer Theoretische Physik, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Arnimallee, 14, D-14195 Berlin, Germany. ' Department of Physics and Astronomy and Center for Computational Sciences, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506-0055, USA

Abstract: Results of computer simulations based on ab initio methods are presented for the newly observed magnetism found in carbon-based and non-traditional inorganic materials. These results reinforce our previously proposed explanation about the nature and the origin of this ||new type of magnetism|| which attributes this to electron correlations effects which develop in the presence of defects and doping. These observations suggest possible pathways which can be used to tailor such a defect-induced magnetism with significant implications in nanotechnology.

Keywords: carbon magnetism; dilute magnetic semiconductors; defect magnetism; C₆₀-based polymers; doped zinc oxide; nanotechnology; Greece; inorganic nanomaterials; simulation.

DOI: 10.1504/IJNT.2009.021714

International Journal of Nanotechnology, 2009 Vol.6 No.1/2, pp.164 - 175

Published online: 30 Nov 2008 *

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