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JOURNAL OF PHYSICS-CONDENSED MATTER
Volume 18, Issue 38, Pages S2919-S2934Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/18/38/S26
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Loss processes in magnetic nanoparticles are discussed with respect to optimization of the specific loss power ( SLP) for application in tumour hyperthermia. Several types of magnetic iron oxide nanoparticles representative for different preparation methods ( wet chemical precipitation, grinding, bacterial synthesis, magnetic size fractionation) are the subject of a comparative study of structural and magnetic properties. Since the specific loss power useful for hyperthermia is restricted by serious limitations of the alternating field amplitude and frequency, the effects of the latter are investigated experimentally in detail. The dependence of the SLP on the mean particle size is studied over a broad size range from superparamagnetic up to multidomain particles, and guidelines for achieving large SLP under the constraints valid for the field parameters are derived. Particles with the mean size of 18 nm having a narrow size distribution proved particularly useful. In particular, very high heating power may be delivered by bacterial magnetosomes, the best sample of which showed nearly 1 kW g(-1) at 410 kHz and 10 kA m(-1). This value may even be exceeded by metallic magnetic particles, as indicated by measurements on cobalt particles.
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