Abstract: The present invention provides systems that include magnetic colloidal particles of differing elemental compositions with differing morphologies. The colloidal particles comprise a magnetic material and a shell that surrounds the magnetic material. The colloidal particles can be inductively heated using a magnetic field. The present invention also provides applications of such colloidal particles, such as methods for cytotoxicity and for drug delivery.

Abstract: The present invention provides systems that include magnetic colloidal particles of differing elemental compositions with differing morphologies. The colloidal particles comprise a magnetic material and a shell that surrounds the magnetic material. The colloidal particles can be inductively heated using a magnetic field. The present invention also provides applications of such colloidal particles, such as methods for cytotoxicity and for drug delivery.

Abstract: The invention relates to colloidal particles of differing elemental compositions with differing morphologies, and to methods of preparing same. The invention also provides applications of such colloidal particles as labels in microscopy, as staining agents, and as biomolecule or drug carriers.

Abstract: Synthetic biotextured surfaces and methods to produce the surface are disclosed. The surfaces mimic the topography of a surface of a naturally occurring sub-endothelial or sub-epithelial extracellular matrix. This is achieved by removing a cell layer from the naturally occurring extracellular matrix substrate, covering the extracellular matrix with a casting material, and allowing the casting material to harden. One then removes extracellular matrix from the casting material to uncover a negative core, and then uses the negative core to cast the replica material. By removing the negative core from the replica material one then creates the synthetic surface.