Abstrak -Telah disintesis nanopartikel magnetit dengan berbagai ukuran butir yang berbeda yang berasal dari bahan MnSO 4 H 2 O dan FeCl 3 .6H 2 O dengan metode kopresipitasi dengan memvariasi parameter suhu dan konsentrasi NaOH. Struktur dan ukuran partikel hasil analisa X-Ray Diffraction (XRD) dan Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) menunjukkan bahwa nanopartikel mengkristal dengan baik dan ada ketergantungan ukuran butir nanopartikel terhadap dua variasi parameter sintesis tersebut. Ukuran butir yang dihitung menggunakan persamaan Scherrer menunjukkan bahwa ukuran butir meningkat seiring peninggkatan suhu dan berkurangnya konsentrasi NaOH. Sifat kemagnetan MnFe 2 O 4 hasil analisa Vibrating Sample Magnetometer (VSM). Sampel dengan variasi konsentrasi NaOH, semakin kecil ukuran butir nanopartikel, medan koersivitasnya semakin rendah. Sementara untuk sampel dengan variasi suhu, semakin kecil ukuran butir, medan koersivitasnya semakin tinggi. Hasil VSM juga menunjukkan bahwa semakin tinggi kristalinitas sampel, nilai magnetisasi saturasinya semakin tinggi. Dengan demikian dapat disimpulkan bahwa ukuran butir dan kehadiran fasa pengotor hematit (α-Fe 2 O 3 ) mempengaruhi sifat kemagnetan nanopartikel MnFe 2 O 4 . Abstract -Magnetite nanoparticles have been synthesized by a variety of different grain sizes derived from FeCl 3 .6H 2 and MnSO 4. H 2 O materials by co-precipitation method with various synthesis temperature and concentration of NaOH. The structural characteristics and particle size of MnFe 2 O 4 were determined by X-ray diffraction (XRD) and TransmissionElectron Microscopy (TEM), its showed that nanoparticles well crystallized with various grain size which depend on synthesis parameters. The grain sizes estimated using the Scherrer formula were found that the grain size increased with increasing temperature synthesis and decreasing concentration of NaOH. Magnetic characterization of MnFe 2 O 4 nanoparticles was investigated by using a Vibrating Sample Magnetometer (VSM). Sample with various concentration of NaOH showed that coercivity was decrease with the decrease of particle size. In other hand, samples with various synthesis temperature found that sample with smallest grain size have high coersivity. The saturation magnetization increase when crystallinity increase. Based on the results, it can be concluded that magnetic characterization of MnFe 2 O 4 was influenced by grain size and presence of an impurity phase hematite (α-Fe 2 O 3 )

In this paper, the analysis of optically responsive microfibers with uniaxially ordered liquid crystal (LC) molecules at their cores is discussed. LC microfibers were electrospun from a solution of poly(vinyl pyrrolidone) (PVP) and N-(4-methoxybenzylidene)-4$-butylaniline (MBBA) using absolute alcohol as a solvent. Two parallel copper (Cu) collectors were used to obtain ordered fibers. The microfibers with oriented LC molecules were well fabricated at a voltage of 5 kV. A thermal-optical analysis revealed that the fibers were responsive to temperature. The rise of temperature from nematic to isotropic phase of LC decreased the LC intensity under a polarized optical microscope (POM).

This study discusses the fabrication and characterization of optically responsive microfibers with uniaxially ordered nematic liquid crystal molecules at their core. The liquid crystal microfibers were electrospun from a solution of polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) and N-(4-methoxybenzylidene)-4-butylaniline (MBBA). A study of phase transition and optical behavior was performed using optical observation by polarized optical microscope, and intermolecular interaction was investigated using Fourier transform infrared (FTIR). The diameter, orientational order of the fibers and light intensity that passed through the fibers depended on the MBBA concentration during the electrospinning process. The nematic–isotropic temperature (T NI) of PVP–MBBA microfibers shifted lower from the T NI of MBBA. Meanwhile a reverse correlation between MBBA concentrations and phase transition was found in the isotropic phase; a significant increase in temperature rate and response time was occurred with small weightage of MBBA. FTIR measurement confirmed that the liquid crystal molecules were self-phase separated from the PVP chains in the fibers.