Specific Absorption Rate of Assembly of Magnetite Nanoparticles with Cubic Magnetic Anisotropy

Abstract

The presence of strong magnetic dipole interaction in assemblies of fractal clusters of nearly spherical magnetite nanoparticles, which arise in a biological media loaded with magnetic nanoparticles, leads to a significant decrease of the specific absorption rate of these assemblies in alternating magnetic field. However, the specific absorption rate of the assembly can be increased if the nanoparticles are covered by non magnetic shells of sufficiently large thickness comparable with the nanoparticle diameter.


Keywords: Magnetite nanoparticles, Magneto- dipole interaction, Specific absorption rate, Numerical simulation

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