Heating Efficiency of Different Magnetotactic Bacterial Species: Influence of Magnetosome Morphology and Chain Arrangement
Danny Villanueva, Alicia G. Gubieda, Lucía Gandarias, Ana Abad Díaz de Cerio, Iñaki Orue, José Ángel García, David de Cos, Javier Alonso, M. Luisa Fdez-Gubieda · 2024
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Danny Villanueva and co-authors compared three kinds of magnetic bacteria in 2024 for their power to heat up under a switching magnetic field. Such bacteria carry a chain of magnetic crystals inside the cell, which lets fields steer them and could heat tumors as a treatment.
Each species makes crystals of a different shape and chain layout. The team measured heating power from magnetic loops and modeled the same loops to get each species' effective magnetic stiffness. Heating rose with that stiffness, but so did the field strength needed to switch the heating on. Picking a species for cancer heating is thus a trade off, not a simple race for the highest power.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Danny Villanueva, Alicia G. Gubieda, Lucía Gandarias, Ana Abad Díaz de Cerio, Iñaki Orue, José Ángel García, David de Cos, Javier Alonso, M. Luisa Fdez-Gubieda |
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| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 29 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |