Galloway, JM, Talbot, JE, Critchley, K et al. (2 more authors) (2015) Developing Biotemplated Data Storage: Room Temperature Biomineralization of L1<inf>0</inf> CoPt Magnetic Nanoparticles. Advanced Functional Materials, 25 (29). pp. 4590-4600. ISSN 1616-301X
Abstract
L10 cobalt platinum can be used to record data at approximately sixfold higher densities than it is possible to on existing hard disks. Currently, fabricating L10 CoPt requires high temperatures (≈500 °C) and expensive equipment. One ecological alternative is to exploit biomolecules that template nanomaterials at ambient temperatures. Here, it is demonstrated that a dual affinity peptide (DAP) can be used to biotemplate L10 CoPt onto a surface at room temperature from an aqueous solution. One part of the peptide nucleates and controls the growth of CoPt nanoparticles from solution, and the other part binds to SiO2. A native silicon oxide surface is functionalized with a high loading of the DAP using microcontact printing. The DAP biotemplates a monolayer of uniformly sized and shaped nanoparticles when immobilized on the silicon surface. X-ray diffraction shows that the biotemplated nanoparticles have the L10 CoPt crystal structure, and magnetic measurements reveal stable, multiparticle zones of interaction, similar to those seen in perpendicular recording media. This is the first time that the L10 phase of CoPt has been formed without high temperature/vacuum treatment (e.g., annealing or sputtering) and offers a significant advancement toward developing environmentally friendly, biotemplated materials for use in data storage.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2015 The Authors. Published by WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited |
Keywords: | biomineralization; biotemplates; data storage; dual affinity peptides; magnetic nanoparticles |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Engineering & Physical Sciences (Leeds) > School of Physics and Astronomy (Leeds) > Molecular & Nanoscale Physics |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 22 Jul 2015 13:00 |
Last Modified: | 08 Mar 2016 23:49 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adfm.201501090 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Identification Number: | 10.1002/adfm.201501090 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:88023 |