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An Improved Method for Estimating Core Size Distributions of Magnetic Nanoparticles via Magnetization Harmonics
Yi Sun1, Na Ye1, Dandan Wang1
1School of Computer and Communication Engineering, Zhengzhou University of Light Industry, Zhengzhou 450001, China.
Abstract:
The core size distribution is an important physical characteristic of magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs) because it seriously affects biomedical and biological applications. In this study, we proposed an improved method for estimating the distributions, which optimizes the excitation frequency based on AC susceptibility to avoid the effects of Brownian relaxation. Moreover, the first, third, and fifth magnetization harmonics under different excitation field strengths are used for estimating core size distributions to avoid measuring higher harmonics. The experiment results show that the improved AC harmonic method can accurately and quickly estimate the distribution of large core sizes compared with the method of static magnetization (M-H) curves, which is a competitive advantage in MNP immunoassays.
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