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  1. ; ; ; (, Advanced Materials Interfaces)
    Abstract Colloidal magnetite nanoparticles self‐assemble onto a disk drive medium as directed by magnetic field gradients created where the medium magnetic moment switches direction over single nanometer distances. Here, it is shown that for two such reversals or transitions that are closely spaced, the nanoparticles self‐assemble into a single feature centered between the transitions, rather than forming separate features at the transitions, and the resulting 2D assembly achieves hexatic ordering. Langevin dynamics simulations are used to explain these results, and it is found that the detailed magnetic properties of the medium play a critical role in determining assembly location. Slight changes to solvent polarity disrupt the hexatic ordering and push the nanoparticles toward the transitions, suggesting an alternate mechanism to precisely tune the self‐assembly process. 
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