“…Nevertheless, the magnetization curves of three samples were symmetrical and passed through the origin with no hysteresis, suggesting that the magnetic SPIO NPs and the consequent magnetic SPIO/Ca-ALG microspheres are typical paramagnetic materials. 36 The XRD patterns of SPIO NPs and two samples of SPIO/Ca-ALG microspheres are quite similar as shown in Figure 3F. The distinct diffraction peaks can be observed at 2θ of 29.84, 35.27, 43.04, 53.31, 56.82, and 62.56, those correspond to the crystal plane of (220), (311), (400), (422), (511), and (440) Figure 3 Magnetic properties of sPIO NPs and sPIO/ca-alg microspheres.…”