Diseases caused by bacterial and fungal pathogens are among the major health problems in the world. Newer antimicrobial therapies based on novel molecules urgently need to be developed, and this includes the antimicrobial peptides. In spite of the potential of antimicrobial peptides, very few of them were able to be successfully developed into therapeutics. The major problems they present are m...

The magnetic properties of cobalt ferrite-silica nanocomposites with different concentrations (15, 30, and 50 wt %) and sizes (7, 16, and 28 nm) of ferrite particles have been studied by static magnetization measurements and Mossbauer spectroscopy. The results indicate a superparamagnetic behavior of the nanoparticles, with weak interactions slightly increasing with the cobalt ferrite content a...

in this work, we investigated synthesis, magnetic properties of silica coated metal ferrite, (cofe2o4)/sio2 and manganese doped cobalt ferrite nanoparticles (mnxco1-xfe2o4 with x= 0.02, 0.04 and 0.06)/sio2 for possible biomedical application. all the ferrites nanoparticles were prepared by co-precipitation method using fecl3.6h2o, cocl2.6h2o and mncl2.2h2o as precursors, and were silica coated ...

Ferrites have always been a subject of great interest from point of view of magnetic application, since the fist compass to present date. In contrast, the scientific interest for iron based magnetic oxides decreased after Ørsted discovery as they where replaces by coil as magnetizing sources. Néel discovery of ferrimagnetism boosted again interest and leads to strong developments during two dec...

From magnetic resonance imaging to cancer hyperthermia and wireless control of cell signaling, ferrite nanoparticles produced by thermal decomposition methods are ubiquitous across biomedical applications. While well-established synthetic protocols allow for precise control over the size and shape of the magnetic nanoparticles, structural defects within seemingly single-crystalline materials co...

Monodisperse nonstoichiometric zinc ferrite nanoparticles with a tunable size of 4.1–32.2 nm are fabricated via thermal decomposition. An extrinsic impurity phase the ZnO component is present in <10 nm, but this can be eliminated after air annealing treatment. The atom ratio Zn/Fe and concentration oxygen vacancies decrease as particle increases, causing magnetic transition from superparamagnet...

Mn-Zn ferrites substituted with Ti4+ ions are now becoming commercially important. The substitution with titanium ions in Mn-Zn ferrite is recommended for ferrites with low losses and low temperature factor of initial permeability, Tdpi because of the shift of the secondary maximum of permeability, SMP, towards lower temperatures [I] and the increase of he d.c.resistivity [3,4,5]. The present p...

Development of nanometer-sized magnetic particles exhibiting a large coercive field (Hc) is in high demand for densification of magnetic recording. Herein, we report a single-nanosize (i.e., less than ten nanometers across) hard magnetic ferrite. This magnetic ferrite is composed of ε-Fe2O3, with a sufficiently high Hc value for magnetic recording systems and a remarkably high magnetic anisotro...