Magnetic-Responsive Materials: Properties, Design, and Applications

Over the past few years, magnetic-responsive materials are extensively researched on grounds of their prospective applications in different areas. Such responsive materials are being progressively exploited as functional materials with the capability of modifying their physical properties and responding to an externally applied magnetic field. Much work has been done to synthesize magnetic materials with novel hybrid features utilizing numerous constituents. Typically, magnetic-responsive materials possibly are developed with diverse shapes, sizes, and morphologies. They react to magnetic field externally applied differently according to their natures and configurations. These materials are estimated to display stimulating magnetic behavior with an extensive range of applications, for instance in bioimaging, drug delivery, hyperthermia, tissue engineering, and bioseparation. From this perspective, this chapter presents a survey of recent literature about properties, and preparation methods, along with various important applications regarding stimuli-responsive magnetic materials.