Université de Fribourg

Lock-in thermography as a rapid and reproducible thermal characterization method for magnetic nanoparticles

Lemal, Philipp ; Geers, Christoph ; Monnier, Christophe A. ; Crippa, Federica ; Daum, Leopold ; Urban, Dominic A. ; Rothen-Rutishauser, Barbara ; Bonmarin, Mathias ; Petri-Fink, Alke

In: Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 2017, vol. 427, p. 206–211

Lock-in thermography (LIT) is a sensitive imaging technique generally used in engineering and materials science (e.g. detecting defects in composite materials). However, it has recently been expanded for investigating the heating power of nanomaterials, such as superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (SPIONs). Here we implement LIT as a rapid and reproducible method that can evaluate the...