Nanomedicine: Design and Applications of Magnetic Nanomaterials, Nanosensors and Nanosystems

Vijay K. Varadan · LinFeng Chen · Jining Xie

Nov 2008 · Sold by John Wiley & Sons

About this eBook

Recent advances in nanomedicine offer ground-breaking methods for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of some fatal diseases. Amongst the most promising nanomaterials being developed are magnetic nanomaterials, including magnetic nanoparticles and magnetic nanosensors. Some nanomagnetic medical applications are already commercially available with more set to be released over the coming years.

Nanomedicine, Design and Applications of Magnetic Nanomaterials, Nanosensors and Nanosystems presents a comprehensive overview of the biomedical applications of various types of functional magnetic materials. The book provides an introduction to magnetic nanomaterials before systematically discussing the individual materials, their physical and chemical principles, fabrication techniques and biomedical applications. This methodical approach allows this book to be used both as a textbook for beginners to the subject and as a convenient reference for professionals in the field.

• Discusses magnetic nanoparticles including nanowires, nanotubes, zero-dimensional nanosperes and naturally existing magnetosomes.
• Examines intrinsically smart magnetic materials and describes their part in the development of biomedical sensors and biochips, which are often used in biomedical tests.
• Integrates the research efforts of different disciplines – from materials sciences to biology and electrical engineering to medicine – in order to provide a unified and authoritative guide to a richly interdisciplinary field.

This volume is of great appeal to students and researchers in the fields of electrical and electronic engineering, biomedical engineering, nanotechnology, materials science, physics, medicine and biology. It is also of interest to practising engineers, materials scientists, chemists and research medical doctors involved in the development of magnetic materials and structures for biomedical applications.

About the author

Vijay K. Varadan, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arizona, USA
Vijay Varadan is an established Wiley author and is currently a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Arkansas, USA.? Varadan's new book for Wiley, Smart Material Systems and MEMS, is due to publish later this year, and he has previously co-authored Microwave Electronics (Wiley, 2004), RF MEMS and their Applications (Wiley, 2002), Microsensors, MEMS and Smart Devices (Wiley, 2002) and Microstereolithography and other Fabrication Techniques for 3D MEMS (Wiley, 2001). He is also Editor-in-Chief of the SPIE's Journal of Smart Materials and Structures.

Lin-Feng Chen, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arizona, USA
Lin-Feng Chen is currently a Senior Research Associate in the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Arkansas, where his research interests include microwave properties of materials, functional electromagnetic materials and microwave communication devices. He has co-authored Microwave Electronics (Wiley, March 2004) with Professor Varadan, and has previously worked as a Research Scientists at the Temasek Laboratories, National University of Singapore.

J. Xie, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, USA>

J. Abraham, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, USA.