Description
Two long standing demands for applications of magnetic nanoparticles in medical applications have been a challenge:
- Routinely reproducible reliable batch of nanomagnetic particles with a narrow size distribution
- ability to measure and determine the characteristics of even very low concentrations, in the ppm regime, of the magnetic content in suspensions.
Our team has recently established capabilities for determining both of them.
We are looking for active research groups who may wish to exploit our capabilities to produce magnetic particles and also characterize them for various biological applications: therapy as well as diagnostics. We would even be interested in designing new instrumentation for specific applications in interdisciplinary projects with people from bioscientific research groups.
Infrastructure/methods
The main applications of the susceptometer are:
- magnetic characterization of liquid samples or particles in suspensions in a few seconds.
- frequency dependence determination to study the consequences of encapsulated particles.
- magnetic field strength dependence determination.
The desktop susceptometer is simple and quick; a measurement only takes a few seconds. It has very high sensitivity and yields both in- and out-of-phase susceptibility. It covers a wide frequency range, from a few Hz to tens of kHz and does not require low temperature or cryogen. The access to the measuring zone is easy, which is a simple 6mm diameter bore.
An instrument for measuring the surface spreading of magnetic particles is also under development.
Practical information
We are looking for researchers interested in exploiting our capabilities to produce magnetic particles and also to characterize them for various biological applications.
We are also interested in designing new instrumentation for specific applications in interdisciplinary projects.
For more information, please download the pdf below, or contact us.
