Lanthanum ion substituted cobalt ferrite nanoparticles and their hyperthermia efficiency

Abstract We investigated the structural, compositional, and magnetic properties as well as the AC magnetic hyperthermic response of CoFe 2 - x La x O 4 ( x = 0.0 , 0.2 , 0.5 ) nanoparticles. We found that the La 3+ ions substituted into the Fe 3+ ion sites, and resulted in an increased magnetocrystalline anisotropy with x , and altered the time-dependent magnetism. To provide a better understanding of the AC magnetic hyperthermia response, a series of temperature versus time measurements were done by varying the magnetic field amplitude, the carrier medium viscosity and the concentration of the nanoparticles as parameters that governed the heating efficiency. A decrease of specific loss power was observed with an increase of the viscosity of the carrier medium for x = 0 and x = 0.25 substituted Co-ferrite nanoparticles, while a small increase was observed with the x = 0.1 La 3+ substituted Co-ferrite nanoparticles (due to their higher intrinsic magnetocrystalline anisotropy).