Ni-Mn-In-V Heusler Alloy New Functional Material for Micro-Bio-Nanomanipulation

Magnetic field-driven bionanomanipulation continues to be a challenging task because the force applied by current magnetic nanoparticles and nanoactuators is effectively limited to femto and pico Newtons at the proper field and gradient scales. Therefore, of particular interest is search for the new functional materials and new effects that provide a breakthrough opportunity for the influence of a remotely controlled magnetic field on a nano and micro Newton scale on living biological objects, such as bacteria, viruses, individual cells, etc. This work includes deep study of the structure, physical and multifunctional properties of a new family of Heusler Ni-Mn-In-V alloys demonstrating the magnetic shape memory effect responsible for actuation, shape change and the production of mechanical work on objects such as viruses and bacteria in a constant temperature environment. The possibilities of capturing, storing, processing of bionanoobjects are discussed.