101st iCeMS Seminar: Assoc. Prof. Nguyen T. K. Thanh

Magnetic nanoparticles have many potential clinical applications, however, the currently available MNPs namely iron oxide are sub-optimal in terms of their physical and biochemical properties. They have lower saturation magnetisation and often are not well biofunctionalised for specific biological target. In this presentation, novel class of MNPs with different size, shape (cube, octopods, rods, multipods, star), chemical composition (e.g., metallic Co, alloy FePt, trimetallic FePtPd, etc.), coating and surface chemistry have been fabricated using wet chemical methods. Multifunctional/hybrid MNPs with noble metal Au and semiconductor quantum dots CdSe were also synthesised. Magnetic nanoparticles could be used to track neural stem cells after a transplant in order to monitor how the cells heal spinal injuries.

Lecturer Title	Assoc. Prof. Nguyen T. K. Thanh UCL-RI Reader in Nanotechnology Royal Society University Research Fellow The Davy-Faraday Research Laboratory The Royal Institution of Great Britain and Department of Physics and Astronomy University College London (UCL) Title: Next Generation of Magnetic Nanoparticles for Biomedical Applications
Date / Time	February 21, 2012 / 15:00-16:00
Venue	2nd floor Seminar Room (#A207), Main Building iCeMS Complex 1, Kyoto University Directions
Flyer	PDF (109KB)
Host	Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS), Kyoto University
Co-Host	Center for Frontier Medicine, Global COE Program, Kyoto University
Contact	iCeMS Takano Lab takano-g@icems.kyoto-u.ac.jp