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A comprehensive insight into the fundamentals of magnetic biosensors and the applications of magnetic nanoparticles in medicine.
List of contents
1. Magnetism, magnetic materials and nanoparticles Adrian Ionescu, Justin Llandro and Kurt R. A. Ziebeck; 2. Preparation of magnetic nanoparticles for applications in biomedicine Pedro Tartaj, Sabino Veintemillas-Verdaguer, Teresita Gonzalez-Carreño and Carlos J. Serna; 3. Magnetic nanoparticle functionalisation Justin J. Palfreyman; 4. Manipulation Donglei Fan, Chia-Ling Chien, Thomas Schneider and Urs O. Häfeli; 5. Modeling the in-flow capture of magnetic nanoparticles Bart Hallmark, Nicholas J. Darton and D. Pearce; 6. Sensing magnetic nanoparticles Adarsh Sandhu, Paul Southern, Susana Cardoso, Simon Knudde, Filipe A. Cardoso, Paulo P. Freitas and Galina V. Kurlyandskaya; 7. Magnetic nanoparticles for MRI contrast agents Nohyun Lee and Taeghwan Hyeon; 8. Magnetotactic bacteria and magnetosomes Dennis A. Bazylinski and Denis Trubitsyn.
About the author
Nicholas J. Darton is the Technical Lead Formulation at ARECOR Ltd, where he is responsible for internal and external collaborative biopharmaceutical formulation development programs.Adrian Ionescu is a Research Associate at the University of Cambridge. He specialises in magnetic surfaces and nanoparticles and has been awarded three Knowledge Transfer Fellowships. He currently works on quantum computing devices based on spin qubitsJustin Llandro is an Assistant Professor at Tohoku University, Japan, where he currently works on self-assembled biomimetic 3D nanostructures and ultra-small magnetic tunnel junctions for spintronics applications.
Summary
Drawing together topics from a wide range of disciplines, and featuring up-to-date examples of clinical usage and research applications, this text provides a comprehensive insight into the fundamentals of magnetic biosensors and the applications of magnetic nanoparticles in medicine.
