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Biocompatible materials exhibiting different types of response to external magnetic field have already found many important applications in various areas of biosciences, biotechnology, medicine, environmental technology etc. In most cases they can be described as composite materials, where the magnetic properties are caused by the presence of iron oxides nano- or microparticles. Such materials can be efficiently separated from difficult-to-handle samples and targeted to the desired place, applied as contrast agents for magnetic resonance imaging or used to generate heat during exposure to alternating magnetic field.
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This research was supported by the Ministry of Education of the Czech Republic (projects OC 157 – Action COST 868 and OC 09052 – Action COST MP0701), by the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Czech Republic (Project No. 2A-1TP1/094), and by the Research Aim of the Institute of Systems Biology and Ecology (AV0Z60870520).
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Šafařík, I., Horská, K., Šafaříková, M. (2011). Magnetic Nanoparticles for Biomedicine. In: Prokop, A. (eds) Intracellular Delivery. Fundamental Biomedical Technologies, vol 5. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1248-5_13
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