Issue 22, 2015
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Cobalt ferrite nanowhiskers as T2 MRI contrast agent†

M. Ravichandran,a   Goldie Oza,b   S. Velumani,*abg   Jose Tapia Ramirez,c   Francisco Garcia-Sierra,d   Norma Barragán Andrade,d   Marco A. Garza-Navarro,e   Domingo I. Garcia-Gutierrez,e   Rafael Lara-Estrada,f   Emilio Sacristán-Rockf  and  Junsin Yig  

* Corresponding authors

a Program on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, México
E-mail: velu_LANE@yahoo.com

b Department of Electrical Engineering, México

c Department of Genetics and Molecular Biology, México

d Department of Cell Biology, Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico D.F, México

e Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, México

f Department of Electrical Engineering, Centro Nacional de Investigación en Imagenología e Instrumentación Médica, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana – Iztapalapa, México

g School of Information and Communication Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, Korea

Abstract

A novel, one-step synthesis of one-dimensional cobalt ferrite nanowhiskers (CfW) is reported. SQUID studies confirmed that the monodispersed surfactant-free CfW exhibit superparamagnetic behaviour. This characteristic makes CfW an ideally suited contrast agent for T2-weighted MRI, thus proving to be very effective for biomedical applications.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C4RA11934G
Article type
Communication
Submitted
07 Oct 2014
Accepted
03 Feb 2015
First published
03 Feb 2015

RSC Adv., 2015,5, 17223-17227

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Cobalt ferrite nanowhiskers as T2 MRI contrast agent

M. Ravichandran, G. Oza, S. Velumani, J. T. Ramirez, F. Garcia-Sierra, N. B. Andrade, M. A. Garza-Navarro, D. I. Garcia-Gutierrez, R. Lara-Estrada, E. Sacristán-Rock and J. Yi, RSC Adv., 2015, 5, 17223 DOI: 10.1039/C4RA11934G

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