The use of microwave-assisted synthesis (in water) of α-Fe 2 O 3 nanomaterials followed by their transformation onto iron oxide Fe 3 O 4 -γ-Fe 2 O 3 hollow nanoparticles encoding well-defined sizes and shapes [nanorings (NRs) and nanotubes (NTs)] is henceforth described. The impact of experimental variables such as concentration of reactants, volume of solvent employed, and reaction times/temperatures during the shape-controlled synthesis revealed that the key factor that gated generation of morphologically diverse nanoparticles was associated to the initial concentration of phosphate anions employed in the reactant mixture. All the nanomaterials presented were fully characterized by powder X-ray diffraction, field emission scanning electron microscopy, Fourier transform infrared, Mossbauer spectroscopy, and superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID). The hollow nanoparticles that expressed the most promising magnetic responses, NTs and NRs, were further tested in terms of efficiencies in controlling the magnetic hyperthermia, in view of their possible use for biomedical applications, supported by their excellent viability as screened by in vitro cytotoxicity tests. These systems NTs and NRs expressed very good magneto-hyperthermia properties, results that were further validated by micromagnetic simulations. The observed specific absorption rate (SAR) and intrinsic loss power of the NRs and NTs peaked the values of 340 W/g and 2.45 nH m 2 kg −1 (NRs) and 465 W/g and 3.3 nH m 2 kg −1 (NTs), respectively, at the maximum clinical field 450 Oe and under a frequency of 107 kHz and are the highest values among those reported so far in the hollow iron-oxide family. The higher SAR in NTs accounts the importance of magnetic shape anisotropy, which is well-predicted by the modified dynamic hysteresis (β-MDH) theoretical model.
To
investigate the role of magnetic anisotropy on magnetic hyperthermia
heating efficiency at low field conditions, Mn, MnZn, and MnCo-ferrite
nanoparticles were synthesized using the hydrothermal method. The
coercive field temperature dependence method was used to determine
the blocking temperature distribution of the particles by considering
the temperature dependence of anisotropy and magnetization and the
random anisotropy axis configuration. The data allowed one to estimate
the room-temperature quasi-static superparamagnetic diameter, which
was found to be lower than the theoretical value. Magnetic hyperthermia
experiments of the magnetic nanocolloids at 522 kHz indicated that
soft nanomagnets heat more efficiently at clinically relevant conditions.
The heating performance was found to decrease at the higher fraction
of blocked nanoparticles. For instance, samples with similar size
distribution and mean diameter of 10 nm, at a field amplitude of only
120 Oe (9.6 kA m–1), showed a decrease of specific
loss power of 56% for the Mn-ferrite and 93% for the MnCo-ferrite
in comparison with the MnZn-ferrite nanoparticle. The fractions of
blocked particles of the MnZn, Mn, and MnCo-ferrite were 5, 10, and
25%, respectively, at room temperature.
The magnetic response of nanostructures plays an important role on biomedical applications being strongly influenced by the magnetic anisotropy. In this work we investigate the role of temperature, particle concentration and nanoparticle arrangement forming aggregates in the effective magnetic anisotropy of Mn-Zn ferrite-based nanoparticles. Electron magnetic resonance and coercivity temperature dependence analyses, were critically compared for the estimation of the anisotropy. We found that the temperature dependence of the anisotropy follows the Callen-Callen model, while the symmetry depends on the particle concentration. At low concentration one observes only an uniaxial term, while increasing a cubic contribution has to be added. The effective anisotropy was found to increase the higher the particle concentration on magnetic colloids, as long as the easy axis was at the same direction of the nanoparticle chain. Increasing even further the concentration up to a highly packed condition (powder sample) one observes a decrease of the anisotropy, that was attributed to the random anisotropy axes configuration.
In this study we report, the synthesis of ZnO and its doping with Transition Metal Oxides -TMO-, such as Cr2O3, MnO2, FeO, CoO, NiO, Cu2O and CuO. Various characterization techniques were employed to investigate the structural properties. The X-ray diffraction (XRD) data and Rietveld refinement confirmed the presence of TMO phases and that the ZnO structure was not affected by the doping with TMO which was corroborated using transmission Electron microscopy (TEM). Surface areas were low due to blockage of adsorption sites by particle aggregation. TMO doping concentration in the range of 3.7–5.1% was important to calculate the catalytic activity. The UV–Visible spectra showed the variation in the band gap of TMO/ZnO ranging from 3.45 to 2.46 eV. The surface catalyzed decomposition of H2O2 was used as the model reaction to examine the photocatalytic activity following the oxygen production and the systems were compared to bulk ZnO and commercial TiO2-degussa (Aeroxyde-P25). The results indicate that the introduction of TMO species increase significantly the photocatalytic activity. The sunlight photocatalytic performance in ZnO-doped was greater than bulk-ZnO and in the case of MnO2, CoO, Cu2O and CuO surpasses TiO2 (P25-Degussa). This report opens up a new pathway to the design of high-performance materials used in photocatalytic degradation under visible light irradiation.
Superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (SPION) are of great interest for application in magnetic fluid hyperthermia (MFH) due to their heat generation capability in an external alternating magnetic field, besides biocompatibility, and surface properties. MFH has emerged as a promisor therapeutic approach for cancer treatment and is based in controlled heating tumor tissue through the accumulation of SPIONs within cancer cells. This work describes a new route for the preparation of folate-conjugated PEGylated SPIONs, which involves the attachment of such molecules at the surface through polycondensation reactions, without the need for coupling agents or prior modification on the species involved. The size of iron oxide cores obtained by transmission electron microscopy was about 12 nm. The conjugation of folate onto SPIONs was confirmed by FTIR spectroscopy. The folate conjugated nanoparticles were colloidal stable in PBS, presenting a hydrodynamic diameter of 109±1 nm and PDI 0.148. The obtained folate-targeted PEGylated SPIONs showed superparamagnetic behavior with a saturation magnetization of 73.1 emu·g −1 at 300 K. Their specific absorption rate (SAR) ranged from 32.8 to 15.0 W g −1 in an alternating magnetic field of 10-16 kA m −1 and frequency of 420-203 kHz. The heat generated was sufficient to raise the sample temperature to the therapeutic range used in MFH establishing this system as promising candidates for use in MFH treatment.
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