Multicomponent magnetic nanoparticle engineering: the role of structure-property relationship in advanced applications

Combining magnetic nanomaterials with materials of other classes can produce multicomponent nanoparticles an entire ensemble new structures and unique, enhanced, synergetic, and/or complementary functionalities. Here we discuss the most recent developments in synthesis nanoparticles, describe resulting their novel properties, explore application a variety fields, including multimodal imaging, nanomedicine, sensing, surface-enhanced Raman scattering, heterogeneous catalysis. The current synthetic methods (usually bottom-up approaches) number tailored morphologies ([email protected], yolk-shell, core-satellite, Janus, nanochains, anisotropic, etc.), making them invaluable for applications biology, medicine, chemistry, physics, engineering. But like any technology, need to be optimized simple, scalable, as environmentally friendly possible before they widely adopted. In particular, use life cycle assessment (LCA) guide future works toward environmental sustainability is highlighted. Overall, this review not only presents critical timely summary state-of-the-art burgeoning field both fundamental applied nanotechnology, but also addresses challenges associated understanding particular structure-property relationships nanoparticles.