Blanco-Andujar, C;
Ortega, D;
Southern, P;
Pankhurst, QA;
Thanh, NT;
(2015)
High performance multi-core iron oxide nanoparticles for magnetic hyperthermia: microwave synthesis, and the role of core-to-core interactions.
Nanoscale
, 7
(5)
pp. 1768-1775.
10.1039/c4nr06239f.
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Abstract
The adoption of magnetic hyperthermia as either a stand-alone or adjunct therapy for cancer is still far from being optimised due to the variable performance found in many iron oxide nanoparticle systems, including commercially available formulations. Herein, we present a reproducible and potentially scalable microwave-based method to make stable citric acid coated multi-core iron oxide nanoparticles, with exceptional magnetic heating parameters, viz. intrinsic loss parameters (ILPs) of up to 4.1 nH m(2) kg(-1), 35% better than the best commercial equivalents. We also probe the core-to-core magnetic interactions in the particles via remanence-derived Henkel and ΔM plots. These reveal a monotonic dependence of the ILP on the magnetic interaction field Hint, and show that the interactions are demagnetising in nature, and act to hinder the magnetic heating mechanism.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | High performance multi-core iron oxide nanoparticles for magnetic hyperthermia: microwave synthesis, and the role of core-to-core interactions |
| Location: | England |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1039/c4nr06239f |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c4nr06239f |
| Additional information: | This journal is © The Royal Society of Chemistry 2015. This Open Access Article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence |
| Keywords: | Citric Acid, Ferrosoferric Oxide, Hyperthermia, Induced, Magnetic Fields, Magnetite Nanoparticles, Microwaves, Temperature |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Med Phys and Biomedical Eng UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Physics and Astronomy |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1459304 |
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