Approximately single-domain-sized 9-, 13-, and 16-nm CoFe2O4 nanoparticles are synthesized using the thermal decomposition of a metal-organic salt. By means of dilution and reduction, the concentration, moment, and anisotropy of nanoparticles are changed and their influence on the magnetic properties is investigated. The relation of M r/M s ∝ 1/lgH dip is observed, where M r/M s is the remanenc...

Core-shell magnetic nanoparticles have received significant attention recently and are actively investigated owing to their large potential for a variety of applications. Here, the synthesis and characterization of bimetallic nanoparticles containing a magnetic core and a gold shell are discussed. The gold shell facilitates, for example, the conjugation of thiolated biological molecules to the ...

RATIONALE Long-acting slow effective release antiretroviral therapy (LASER ART) was developed to improve patient regimen adherence, prevent new infections, and facilitate drug delivery to human immunodeficiency virus cell and tissue reservoirs. In an effort to facilitate LASER ART development, "multimodal imaging theranostic nanoprobes" were created. These allow combined bioimaging, drug pharma...

The effect of Zn-doping in CoFe2O4 nanoparticles (NPs) through chemical co-precipitation route was investigated in term of structural, optical, and magnetic properties. Both XRD and FTIR analyses confirm the formation of cubic spinel phase, where the crystallite size changes with Zn content from 46 to 77 nm. The Scherrer method, Williamson-Hall (W-H) analysis, and size-strain plot method (SSPM)...

Ferrites-bismuth ferrite is an intriguing option for medical diagnostic imaging device due to its magnetoelectric and enhanced near-infrared fluorescent properties. However, the embedded XFO nanoparticles are randomly located on the BFO membranes, making implementation in devices difficult. To overcome this, we present a facile bio-approach to produce XFe2O4-BiFeO3 (XFO-BFO) (X = Cr, Mn, Co, or...

The dynamic behavior of a mixture of 4-cyano-4'-pentylbiphenyl (5CB) with 1% CoFe2O4 nanoparticles was analyzed. Experimental data indicate a high stability of the nematic director in the mixture compared to a reference 5CB sample in the magnetic field. The ferrite nanoparticles agglomerate forming long chains as observed in polarized microscopy images. These chains have a very high influence o...

A. Lisfi,1,* C. M. Williams,1 L. T. Nguyen,2 J. C. Lodder,2 A. Coleman,1 H. Corcoran,1 A. Johnson,1 P. Chang,1 A. Kumar,1 and W. Morgan1 1Department of Physics, Morgan State University, 1700 E. Cold Spring Lane, Baltimore, Maryland 21251, USA 2SMI, MESA Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Twente, P.O. Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands Received 27 March 2007; revised manuscript ...

Ferromagnetic resonance was used to study the temperature dependence of mixed manganese-cobalt ferrite nanoparticles with a size range between 5 and 42 nm synthesized by hydrothermal method. Structural characterization carried out using X-ray diffraction, scanning, transmission electron microscopy. M(H) curves as function Mn2+ content at 2.5 300 K, FMR in 80 < T 700 K were for magnetic characte...