Spatial confinement in nanoporous media affects the structure, thermodynamics and mobility
of molecular soft matter often markedly. This article reviews thermodynamic equilibrium …

Porous Si exhibits a number of properties that make it an attractive material for controlled
drug delivery applications: The electrochemical synthesis allows construction of tailored …

Quantum dots (QDs) have size-dependent optical properties that make them uniquely
advantageous for in vivo targeted fluorescence imaging, traceable delivery, and therapy …

Strategies to encode or label small particles or beads for use in high-throughput screening
and bioassay applications focus on either spatially differentiated, on-chip arrays,, or random …

This work presents the development and design of aptasensor employing porous silicon
(PSi) Fabry‒Pérot thin films that are suitable for use as optical transducers for the detection …

Porous silicon is a promising biomaterial that is non-toxic and biodegradable. Surface
modification can offer control over the degradation rate and can also impart properties that …

A novel white light-promoted reaction using photoluminescent nanocrystalline silicon
enables the hydrosilylation of alkenes and alkynes, providing stabilization of the porous …

Macroporous silicon microcavities for detection of large biological molecules have been
fabricated from highly doped n‐type silicon. Well‐defined controllable pore sizes up to 120 …

Silica and silicon nanomaterials have diverse applications in the field of drug/gene delivery,
lightweight aggregates, regenerative medicine, tissue engineering, cancer …

This review is devoted to the analysis of the problems related to fabrication of the Si porous
layers. The review was motivated by a great interest to Si-based porous materials from nano …