Physics – Condensed Matter – Soft Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
2010-09-07
Magnetohydrodynamics 46 , 3, pp. 245-256, 2010
Physics
Condensed Matter
Soft Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
Dynamics of flexible ferromagnetic filaments in an external magnetic field is considered. We report the existence of a buckling instability of the ferromagnetic filament at the magnetic field reversion, which leads to the formation of a metastable loop. Its relaxation through three dimensional transformation of the configurations is observed experimentally and confirmed by numerical simulations. Bending modulus of the flexible ferromagnetic filaments synthesized by linking micron size core-shell ferromagnetic particles with DNA fragments is estimated by comparison of the parameters of the loops observed in the experiment with theoretical calculations. Formation of the loop and its relaxation are characterized by the numerically calculated writhe number. The relaxation time of the loop allows us to estimate the hydrodynamic drag of the filament.
Cebers Andrejs
Ērglis K.
Livanovičs R.
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