Over the last decade, there has been increased interest in "nanomaterial", which describes materials with structure on one dimension between 1nm and 100nm. A variety of supermolecular ensembles, multifunctional supermolecule, carbon nanotubes, and metal or semiconductor nanostructure have been synthesized and proposed as potential building blocks for information storage media, cell imaging and bioprocessing devices, and magnetic carriers. This has arisen for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is technological advance, and the promise of control over material and device structure at length scales far below conventional lithographic patterning technology. Superparamagnetic nanoparticles (SPM NPs) and nanostructure are particularly interesting and promising because those related studies provide not only information about the structural and magnetic properties of the materials but also the opportunity to find the potential applications in biomedical field. This chapter will begin with the definition of nanotechnology and a short explanation of fundamental mechanism of nanomaterials. Then we will focus on the theoretical definition of SPM NPs, followed by a detailed explanation about the synthesis of SPM NPs. More importantly, this chapter reveals the underground theories for several biomedical applications together with some examples.
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