Magnetic Nanoparticles

The interesting properties of magnetic nanoparticles have been exploited to good effect in many applications, particularly in magnetic recording and more recently in magnetic random access memory (MRAM). Significantly also, there are many biomedical applications, such as drug, gene and radionuclide delivery.

Dr. Cregg holds a PhD from Trinity College Dublin on Magnetic Nanoparticles (1991). He has twice been a CEC Marie Curie Fellow under the 3rd FP at Queen’s University Belfast (1993) and the University of Paris 7 and University of Versailles (1994) working on dynamics and statics of magnetic nanoparticle systems. He is currently collaborating with the University of Zaragoza, Spain and University of Uppsala, Sweden. In conjunction with Dr. Kieran Murphy of the Dept of Computing Maths & Physics, Dr Cregg is supervising postgraduate and undergraduate projects on the computational fluid dynamics of magnetic nanoparticles in the bloodstream. Dr. Molloy is currently working with Dr. Cregg on the linear and non-linear susceptibility of interacting magnetic nanoparticles.