Title
Magnetic Nanoflowers: Synthesis, Formation Mechanism and Hyperthermia Application
Date Issued
01 January 2021
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
book part
Author(s)
University of Brasilia
Publisher(s)
Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Abstract
Magnetic hyperthermia is becoming a very propitious supplementary technique for cancer treatments such as chemotherapy radiotherapy and radiotherapy. In this regard, magnetic nanoflowers (MNFs) are novel system in terms of morphology showing a structure similar to flower and exhibiting higher stability and enhanced heating efficiency when compared with similar nanoparticles displaying standard formats; enabling them for magneto-hyperthermia applications. In this chapter, different types of nanoflowers such as magnetic-oxide, magneto-plasmonic, and magnetic-organic/inorganic and their applicability are discussed. Moreover, a discussion on the most common chemical routes to design nanoflowers emphasizing hydro/solvothermal techniques, microwave-assisted hydrothermal, co-precipitations, and polyol are highlighted. Furthermore, the nucleation of MNFs and their growing process with a physical parameter are presented. At last, the magnetic hyperthermia properties of MNFs and their recent findings are critically scrutinized along with their future perspectives in biomedicine.
Start page
129
End page
166
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ingeniería de materiales
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85118555049
Source
Topics in Mining, Metallurgy and Materials Engineering
ISSN of the container
23643293
Sponsor(s)
Acknowledgements GN and SKS are very thankful to funding agencies CAPES, CNPq and FAPEMA, Brazil; MCM is thankful to CAPES-PNPD fellowship, Brazil for providing the funding to conduct this research (Process No-23106.067256/2018-51). SKS is also very thankful to PPGF-UFMA for motivation to work on this book project. Maria A. G. Soler acknowledges University of Brasilia (Edital DPI/UnB 04/2019) for support the developing this research. JAHC thanks the CNPq and FAPDF, Brazil for the financial support.
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