Degradability and clearance of silicon, organosilica, silsesquioxane, silica mixed oxide, and mesoporous silica nanoparticles

JG Croissant, Y Fatieiev, NM Khashab - Advanced materials, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The biorelated degradability and clearance of siliceous nanomaterials have been
questioned worldwide, since they are crucial prerequisites for the successful translation in …

Surface and interface engineering of silicon‐based anode materials for lithium‐ion batteries

W Luo, X Chen, Y Xia, M Chen, L Wang… - Advanced Energy …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Silicon is one of the most promising anode materials for lithium‐ion batteries because of the
highest known theoretical capacity and abundance in the earth'crust. Unfortunately …

Facile synthesis of uniform virus-like mesoporous silica nanoparticles for enhanced cellular internalization

W Wang, P Wang, X Tang, AA Elzatahry… - ACS central …, 2017 - ACS Publications
The low-efficiency cellular uptake property of current nanoparticles greatly restricts their
application in the biomedical field. Herein, we demonstrate that novel virus-like mesoporous …

Dendritic fibrous nanosilica for catalysis, energy harvesting, carbon dioxide mitigation, drug delivery, and sensing

A Maity, V Polshettiwar - ChemSusChem, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Morphology‐controlled nanomaterials such as silica play a crucial role in the development
of technologies for addressing challenges in the fields of energy, environment, and health …

Evaluation of mesoporous silica nanoparticles for oral drug delivery–current status and perspective of MSNs drug carriers

J Florek, R Caillard, F Kleitz - Nanoscale, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
The oral pathway is considered as the most common method for drug administration,
although many drugs, especially the highly pH-and/or enzymatic biodegradable peptide …

[HTML][HTML] In vivo gastrointestinal drug-release monitoring through second near-infrared window fluorescent bioimaging with orally delivered microcarriers

R Wang, L Zhou, W Wang, X Li, F Zhang - Nature communications, 2017 - nature.com
Non-invasive monitoring of gastrointestinal drug release in vivo is extremely challenging
because of the limited spatial resolution and long scanning time of existing bioimaging …

Talented mesoporous silica nanoparticles

K Möller, T Bein - Chemistry of Materials, 2017 - ACS Publications
The structure and functionality of mesoporous silica nanoparticles can be tuned by means of
numerous and diverse synthetic strategies. Focusing on experimental methods, we describe …

[HTML][HTML] Biodegradable hollow mesoporous silica nanoparticles for regulating tumor microenvironment and enhancing antitumor efficiency

M Kong, J Tang, Q Qiao, T Wu, Y Qi, S Tan, X Gao… - Theranostics, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
There is accumulating evidence that regulating tumor microenvironment plays a vital role in
improving antitumor efficiency. Herein, to remodel tumor immune microenvironment and …

Multi‐shelled dendritic mesoporous organosilica hollow spheres: roles of composition and architecture in cancer immunotherapy

Y Yang, Y Lu, PL Abbaraju, J Zhang… - Angewandte …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Developing potent adjuvants for the stimulation of robust immune response is central for
effective cancer immunotherapy. Double‐shelled dendritic mesoporous organosilica hollow …

Plasmid DNA delivery: nanotopography matters

H Song, M Yu, Y Lu, Z Gu, Y Yang… - Journal of the …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Plasmid DNA molecules with unique loop structures have widespread bioapplications, in
many cases relying heavily on delivery vehicles to introduce them into cells and achieve …