“…Besides their specific magnetic properties [54], magnetite (Fe 3 O 4 ) nanoparticles are friendly to biological tissues and fluids, the biocompatibility [34,35,36,55] making them promising candidates for numerous biomedical applications, like: (1) drug delivery systems [56,57,58,59]; (2) hyperthermia cancer treatment [60,61,62,63,64]; (3) contrasting agent in magnetic resonance imaging [11,27,65,66]; (4) inhibition of biofilm development [67,68,69,70,71,72,73]. …”