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Antimicrobial Activity of Magnetic Nanostructures

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Magnetic Nanostructures

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Magnetic nanostructures have attracted considerable attention due to its properties such as coercivity, biocompatibility, high magnetic susceptibility, morphology, and other surface properties. Due to the unique characteristics of magnetic nanostructures, they have a wide range of domestic and commercial applications in various domains like biology, agriculture, environment, medicine, physics, electronics, pharmaceutical, industry, and so on. Magnetic nanostructures are preferred in biological applications because of their potential to function at the cellular and molecular levels and minimal harmful effects compared to their bulk material form. Microbial infection is a major concern in day-to-day life and is also impacting numerous sectors like water treatment, food packaging, cloth industry, marine transport, and medicine. The current chapter focuses on magnetic nanostructures showing antimicrobial activity, their antimicrobial mechanism, factors affecting the antimicrobial activity, benefits and limitations of magnetic nanoparticles as an antimicrobial agent, and methods used for testing antimicrobial activity.

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Nehra, P., Chauhan, R.P. (2019). Antimicrobial Activity of Magnetic Nanostructures. In: Abd-Elsalam, K., Mohamed, M., Prasad, R. (eds) Magnetic Nanostructures . Nanotechnology in the Life Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16439-3_16

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