In recent years, although many review articles have been presented about bioapplications of magnetic nanoparticles by some research groups with different expertise such as chemistry, biology, medicine, pharmacology, and materials science and engineering, the majority of these reviews are insufficiently comprehensive in all related topics like magnetic aspects of process. In the current review, it is attempted to carry out the inclusive surveys on importance of magnetic nanoparticles and especially magnetite ones and their required conditions for appropriate performance in bioapplications. The main attentions of this paper are focused on magnetic features which are less considered. Accordingly, the review contains essential magnetic properties and their measurement methods, synthesis techniques, surface modification processes, and applications of magnetic nanoparticles.

Magnetic-plasmonic heterodimer nanostructures synergistically present excellent magnetic and plasmonic characteristics in a unique platform as a multipurpose medium for recently invented biomedical applications, such as magnetic hyperthermia, photothermal therapy, drug delivery, bioimaging, and biosensing. In this review, we briefly outline the less-known aspects of heterodimers, including electronic composition, interfacial morphology, critical properties, and present concrete examples of recent progress in synthesis and applications. With a focus on emerging features and performance of heterodimers in biomedical applications, this review provides a comprehensive perspective of novel achievements and suggests a fruitful framework for future research.

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Loss mechanisms in fluid heating of cobalt ferrite (CFO) nanoparticles and CFO-Pd heterodimer colloidal suspensions are investigated as a function of particle size, fluid concentration and magnetic field amplitude. The...

as an interdisciplinary research line of chemistry, physics, and materials engineering. [1,2] Numerous scientific efforts have focused on designing new materials with the desired electronic and magnetic features by tuning the chemical composition, structural parameters, and physical modifications. [3,4] In recent years, defect variant structures have been considered as promising candidates to provide new, targeted properties and property combinations. The interdependence of magnetic and electronic structures to the partial vacancies on anion positions has been reported for a few ferrite and ferrate compounds indicating significant effects of vacancies on the Fermi level, orbital splitting, and geometrical interactions in the crystal structure, thereby changing the magnetization and the ionic conductivity. [5,6] The change in properties originates from the different vacancies of isolated cations and anions, as well as defects in the complex anionic motifs. For compounds including iron, depending on the structure, the iron vacancies can be considered either as vacancies of single cations, or as defects in the anionic motifs. Although the impact of iron The multigram synthesis of K 2 [Fe 3 S 4 ] starting from K 2 S and FeS is presented, and its electronic and magnetic properties are investigated. The title compound obtains a defect variant of the K[Fe 2 Se 2 ] structure type. Dielectric and impedance measurements indicate a dielectric constant of 1120 at 1 kHz and an outstanding ionic conductivity of 24.37 mS cm -1 at 295 K, which is in the range of the highest reported value for potential solid-state electrolytes for potassium-ion batteries. The Seebeck coefficient of the n-type conductor amounts to −60 µV K −1 at 973 K. The mismatch of the measured electrical resistivity and the predicted metal-like band structure by periodic quantum chemical calculations indicates Mott insulating behavior. Magnetometry demonstrates temperature-dependent, large exchange bias fields of 35 mT, as a consequence of the coexistence of spin glass and antiferromagnetic orderings due to the iron vacancies in the lattice. In addition, the decreasing training effects of 34% in the exchange bias are identified at temperatures lower than 20 K. These results demonstrate the critical role of iron vacancies in tuning the electronic and magnetic properties and a multifunctional material from abundant and accessible elements.