Manganese ferrite nanocubes as an MRI contrast agent Academic Article

abstract

• Abstract Facile synthesis of superparamagnetic, highly crystalline, manganese ferrite nanocubes (MnNCs) is reported. X-ray diffraction depicts single-phase face-centred cubic spinel and the electron microscopy represents the nearly monodispersed cube-like nanostructure with the size ranging from 18 to 20 nm. Vibrating sample magnetometer shows magnetization field-dependent curves at 300 K exhibiting the superparamagnetic behaviour of NCs with negligible remanence. Furthermore, the biocompatibility of NCs was proved by MTT assay. These unique characteristics make this NCs as a contrast agent ideally suited for T2-weighted MR imaging. This novel method of synthesizing NCs proves to be very attractive for various biomedical applications because of their outstanding stability and biocompatibility.

authors

• Subramaniam, Velumani

published proceedings

• MATERIALS RESEARCH EXPRESS

altmetric score

• 0.5

author list (cited authors)

• Ravichandran, M., & Velumani, S.

citation count

• 23

complete list of authors

• Ravichandran, M||Velumani, S

publication date

• January 2020

publisher

• IOP Publishing  Publisher

published in

• Materials Research Express  Journal

keywords

• Biocompatible
• Manganese Ferrite
• Mri
• Nanocube
• Superparamagnetic

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1088/2053-1591/ab66a4

start page

• 016107

end page

• 016107

volume

• 7

issue

• 1

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/2053-1591/ab66a4