Many challenges for advanced sensitive and noninvasive clinical diagnostic imaging remain unmatched. In particular, the great potential of magnetic nano-probes is intensively discussed to further improve the performance of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), especially for cancer diagnosis. Based on recent achievements, here the concepts of magnetic nanoparticle-based MRI contrast agents and tumo...

Electroand magneto-optical phenomena play key roles in photonic technology enabling light modulators, optical data storage, sensors and numerous spectroscopic techniques. Optical effects, linear and quadratic in external electric and magnetic field are widely known and comprehensively studied. However, optical phenomena that depend on the simultaneous application of external electric and magnet...

Ultrasensitive biosensing is currently a growing demand that has led to the development of numerous strategies for signal amplification. In this context, the unique properties of magnetic particles; both of nano- and micro-size dimensions; have proved to be promising materials to be coupled with disposable electrodes for the design of cost-effective electrochemical affinity biosensing platforms...

We present here the design of nano-inclusions made of properly arranged collections of plasmonic metallic nano-particles that may exhibit a resonant magnetic dipole collective response in the visible domain. When such inclusions are embedded in a host medium, they may provide metamaterials with negative effective permeability at optical frequencies. We also show how the same inclusions may prov...

The ability to design nano-structured materials presents significant future scientific and technological opportunities. To realize this potential realistic quantum mechanical simulations of real nanomaterials are required. These usually involve large problem sizes in the range of thousands to millions of atoms. Interestingly, recent advances in the locally self-consistent multiple scattering (L...

The structural and magnetic properties of Co68Fe24Zr8/Al2O3 multilayers grown by using magnetron sputtering were investigated with x-ray reflectivity, transmission electron microscopy and magneto-optical Kerr effect. The Co68Fe24Zr8 form amorphous islands when the nominal thickness of the Co68Fe24Zr8 layers is 10 Å, exhibiting an isotropic superparamagnetic behavior. Continuous layers with most...

Uniform carbon nano test tubes including magnetic metal particles inside their one-dimensional cavities were synthesized by the template method. The "as synthesized" metal-filled test tubes (35 nm in diameter and 1400 nm in length) were dispersible in ethanol, but not in water. To improve the water-dispersibility of the test tubes, their surface was treated with hydrogen peroxide and, as a resu...

Introduction: Recent TEM studies revealed that Fe-Ni metal nano-particles are responsible for the dark “brown” color of olivine in the NWA2737 chassignite, which is interpreted to have formed by reduction of olivine due to heavy shock events [1,2]. Color change of olivine is important to understand the remote sensing data as is the case for space weathering [3,4]. Furthermore, nano-phase Fe par...

The energetics of thin elongated ferromagnetic nano-islands is considered for some different shapes, aspect ratios and applied magnetic field directions. These nano-island particles are important for artificial spin ice materials. For low temperature, the magnetic internal energy of an individual particle is evaluated numerically as a function of the direction of a particle's net magnetization....