Table 2.

Maximum temperature and heating rate of MNPs mixed within agar: effect of microwave frequency on heating (concentration = 10 mg/mL).

Structure	Frequency (GHz)	Heating Rate (°C/s)	p-Value
Cubic	2.0	0.38 ± 0.02	>0.9999
	2.45	0.3 ± 0.01	0.9946
	2.6	0.4 ± 0.01	0.9237
Hexagonal	2.0	0.81 ± 0.08	0.0002
	2.45	0.58 ± 0.02	0.0745
	2.6	0.48 ± 0.01	<0.0001
10 nm Spherical	2.0	1.7 ± 0.04	<0.0001
	2.45	1.04 ± 0.02	<0.0001
	2.6	0.77 ± 0.02	<0.0001
20 nm Spherical	2.0	1.23 ± 0.01	<0.0001
	2.45	0.92 ± 0.01	0.0003
	2.6	0.84 ± 0.01	<0.0001
Control	2.0	0.47 ± 0.02
	2.45	0.5 ± 0.1
	2.6	0.41 ± 0.01