... SURFACE FUNCTIONALIZATION OF SUPERPARAMAGNETIC IRON OXIDE NANOPARTICLES FOR POTENTIAL CELL TARGETING, IMAGING, AND CANCER THERAPY APPLICATIONS HUANG CHAO (B.ENG., ... Objectives and Scopes The overall aim of this thesis is to develop various functional polymers as surface coatings of SPIONs for potential cell targeting, MRI, and cancer therapy applications ... nanomaterials, magnetic iron oxide nanoparticles are of intense current interest and have been successfully used for clinical applications, for example, molecular imaging Magnetic iron oxide nanoparticles...