Poly(N-isopropyl acrylamide) coated magnetite nanoparticles as contrast agents for magnetic resonance imaging

• Main Authors: Suresh, G., Ramanujan, Raju Vijayaraghavan, Chong, T. W., Chaughule, R. S., Pednekar, S., Patkar, D. P.
• Other Authors: School of Materials Science & Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Materials::Nanostructured materials
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/104233; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/25973
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Thermosensitive poly(N-isopropyl acrylamide) (PNIPAM) has been coated on Fe3O4 core to prepare Fe3O4-PNIPAM core–shell nanostructures. The PNIPAM coating has the ability to swell and shrink due to changes in temperature. Core–shell nanostructured samples with different hydrodynamic sizes were prepar...