On the theory of hysteretic magnetostriction of soft ferrogels Zubarev, Andrey Chirikov, Dmitry Stepanov, G Borin, Dmitry López López, Modesto Torcuato The paper deals with theoretical study of hysteretic magnetostriction of soft ferrogels – composite materials, consisting of the micron-sized magnetizable particles embedded into gel matrices. It is supposed that initially, before application of an external magnetic field, the particles are homogeneously and isotropically distributed in an elastic matrix. The theoretical explanation of the hysteresis phenomena is based on the conception that, under the field action, the particles rearrange into the linear chain-like aggregates. The typical length of the chains is determined by the competition between the force of magnetic attraction of the particles and the force of elastic deformation of the matrix. 2021-04-05T08:22:18Z 2021-04-05T08:22:18Z 2018 info:eu-repo/semantics/article Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 498, 86-95, 2018 http://hdl.handle.net/10481/67774 10.1016/j.physa.2017.12.136 eng info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess