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Magnetic Fluids for Bio-medical Application

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Advances in Biomedical Sensing, Measurements, Instrumentation and Systems

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering ((LNEE,volume 55))

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The use of magnetic fluids in the bio-medical field is becoming quite appealing due to the amusing properties and potentialities of these materials as bio-compatible markers to localize target molecules and to transport functional entities. Moreover, the use of magnetic fluids in integrated devices is very promising to implement lab-on-chip systems. Although this strong efforts towards bio-applications, magnetic fluids reveals interesting properties and peculiarities for the realization of inertial sensors and actuators with very performing performances and characteristic.

This chapter is dedicated to a review of the use of magnetic fluid in the field of bio-applications with a specific focus on the implementation of actuators aimed to control small amount of fluid.

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    Bruno Andò, Salvatore Baglio & Angela Beninato

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    Subhas Chandra Mukhopadhyay

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Andò, B., Baglio, S., Beninato, A. (2010). Magnetic Fluids for Bio-medical Application. In: Mukhopadhyay, S.C., Lay-Ekuakille, A. (eds) Advances in Biomedical Sensing, Measurements, Instrumentation and Systems. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 55. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-05167-8_2

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