Shell-by-shell synthesis of multi-shelled mesoporous silica nanospheres for optical imaging and drug delivery

CC Huang, W Huang, CS Yeh - Biomaterials, 2011 - Elsevier
Self-templated synthesis involving interior channel wall protection as well as outermost
surface passivation was crucial to successful synthesis of multi-shelled mesoporous silica …

An organosilane-directed growth-induced etching strategy for preparing hollow/yolk–shell mesoporous organosilica nanospheres with perpendicular mesochannels …

H Zou, R Wang, X Li, X Wang, S Zeng, S Ding… - Journal of Materials …, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
We have developed an organosilane-directed growth-induced etching strategy to prepare
hollow periodic mesoporous organosilica (PMO) nanospheres with perpendicular …

Double mesoporous silica shelled spherical/ellipsoidal nanostructures: synthesis and hydrophilic/hydrophobic anticancer drug delivery

Y Chen, H Chen, M Ma, F Chen, L Guo… - Journal of Materials …, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
A general electrostatic interaction-based self-assembly strategy has been developed to
synthesize various composite nanostructures with double mesoporous silica shells. The …

Anisotropic encapsulation-induced synthesis of asymmetric single-hole mesoporous nanocages

X Li, L Zhou, Y Wei, AM El-Toni, F Zhang… - Journal of the American …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Asymmetric single-hole mesoporous silica nanocages, which are eccentric hollow structured
spheres and consist of mesoporous shell with an open hole on their surface, with uniform …

Hollow mesoporous silica nanoparticles with tunable structures for controlled drug delivery

Y Li, N Li, W Pan, Z Yu, L Yang… - ACS applied materials & …, 2017 - ACS Publications
A size-controllable and facile synthetic strategy has been developed to fabricate a series of
hollow mesoporous silica nanoparticles (HMSNs) with tunable hollow cores or shell …

Mesostructured multifunctional nanoparticles for imaging and drug delivery

M Liong, S Angelos, E Choi, K Patel… - Journal of Materials …, 2009 - pubs.rsc.org
Mesostructured silica particles (∼ 100 nm diameter with∼ 2 nm pores) prepared by
surfactant-templated sol–gel techniques are versatile supports that can be easily derivatized …

Advances in multicompartment mesoporous silica micro/nanoparticles for theranostic applications

J Liu, T Liu, J Pan, S Liu, GQ Lu - Annual review of chemical and …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Mesoporous silica nanoparticles (MSNs) are promising functional nanomaterials for a
variety of biomedical applications, such as bioimaging, drug/gene delivery, and cancer …

Synthesis of core− shell structured dual-mesoporous silica spheres with tunable pore size and controllable shell thickness

D Niu, Z Ma, Y Li, J Shi - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2010 - ACS Publications
Core− shell structured dual-mesoporous silica spheres (DMSS) that possess smaller pores
(2.0 nm) in the shell and larger tunable pores (12.8− 18.5 nm) in the core have been …

Mesoporous silica nanoparticles with organo-bridged silsesquioxane framework as innovative platforms for bioimaging and therapeutic agent delivery

X Du, X Li, L Xiong, X Zhang, F Kleitz, SZ Qiao - Biomaterials, 2016 - Elsevier
Mesoporous silica material with organo-bridged silsesquioxane frameworks is a kind of
synergistic combination of inorganic silica, mesopores and organics, resulting in some novel …

Synthesis of double mesoporous core–shell silica spheres with tunable core porosity and their drug release and cancer cell apoptosis properties

AM El-Toni, A Khan, MA Ibrahim, JP Labis… - Journal of colloid and …, 2012 - Elsevier
In this work, we demonstrate a simple two-pot approach to double mesoporous core–shell
silica spheres (DMCSSs) with uniform size of 245–790nm, shell thickness of 41–80nm and …