Local magnetism in palladium bionanomaterials probed by muon spectroscopy |
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| Authors: | Neil J. Creamer Iryna P. Mikheenko Clive Johnson Stephen P. Cottrell Lynne E. Macaskie |
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| Affiliation: | (1) Unit of Functional Bionanomaterials, School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK;(2) ISIS, Science and Technology Facilities Council, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, OX11 0QX, UK; |
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| Abstract: | Palladium bionanomaterial was manufactured using the sulfate-reducing bacterium, Desulfovibrio desulfuricansm, to reduce soluble Pd(II) ions to cell-bound Pd(0) in the presence of hydrogen. The biomaterial was examined using a Superconducting Quantum Interference Device (SQUID) to measure bulk magnetisation and by Muon Spin Rotation Spectroscopy (μSR) which is uniquely able to probe the local magnetic environment inside the sample. Results showed behaviour attributable to interaction of muons both with palladium electrons and the nuclei of hydrogen trapped in the particles during manufacture. Electronic magnetism, also suggested by SQUID, is not characteristic of bulk palladium and is consistent with the presence of nanoparticles previously seen in electron micrographs. We show the first use of μSR as a tool to probe the internal magnetic environment of a biologically-derived nanocatalyst material. |
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