Precisely controlling the surface roughness of silica nanoparticles for enhanced functionalities and applications

W Chen, B Yu, X Zhang, F Zhang, X Zan, T Li - Journal of Colloid and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Hypothesis Colloids with rough topography demonstrate more complex interactions and
tremendous potential in industrial applications. However, relevant studies suffer from a …

Biogenic and biomimetic carriers as versatile transporters to treat infections

A Goes, G Fuhrmann - ACS infectious diseases, 2018 - ACS Publications
Biogenic and biomimetic therapeutics are a relatively new class of systems that are of
physiological origin and/or take advantage of natural pathways or aim at mimicking these to …

Polycation–Carbon Nanohybrids with Superior Rough Hollow Morphology for the NIR-II Responsive Multimodal Therapy

N Zhao, W Fan, X Zhao, Y Liu, Y Hu… - ACS applied materials …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Polymer–inorganic hybrid nanomaterials have attracted much attention for the multimodal
cancer therapy, while it is still desirable to explore hybrids with superior morphologies for …

Dose-enhancement of MCF 7 cell line radiotherapy using silica-iron oxide nanocomposite

MM Fathy, OA Saad, WM Elshemey… - … and Biophysical Research …, 2022 - Elsevier
Cancer radiotherapy is one of the most effective regimens of cancer treatments, but cancer
cell radioresistance remains a concern. Radiosensitizers can selectively improve the …

Biodegradable mesoporous organosilica nanosheets for chemotherapy/mild thermotherapy of cancer: fast internalization, high cellular uptake, and high drug loading

L Chen, X Meng, M Liu, R Lv, B Cai… - ACS applied materials & …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The choice of nanocarriers is crucial to fabricate ideal therapeutic nanoplatform in the
treatment of cancer. Considering the advantages brought by the two-dimensional (2D) …

Transformation of viral light particles into near-infrared fluorescence quantum dot-labeled active tumor-targeting nanovectors for drug delivery

C Lv, TY Zhang, Y Lin, M Tang, CH Zhai, HF Xia… - Nano Letters, 2019 - ACS Publications
Nanosized oncolytic viral light particles (L-particles), separated from progeny virions, are
composed of envelopes and several tegument proteins of viruses, free of nucleocapsids …

Recent advances in mesoporous silica nanoparticles delivering siRNA for cancer treatment

X Xie, T Yue, W Gu, WY Cheng, L He, WY Ren, F Li… - Pharmaceutics, 2023 - mdpi.com
Silencing genes using small interfering (si) RNA is a promising strategy for treating cancer.
However, the curative effect of siRNA is severely constrained by low serum stability and cell …

Kinetics-mediate fabrication of multi-model bioimaging lanthanide nanoplates with controllable surface roughness for blood brain barrier transportation

P Wang, C Wang, L Lu, X Li, W Wang, M Zhao, L Hu… - Biomaterials, 2017 - Elsevier
Effective delivery of imaging agents or therapeutics to the brain has remained elusive due to
the poor blood-brain barrier (BBB) permeability, resulting in the apparent risks of inefficient …

Marriage of Virus‐Mimic Surface Topology and Microbubble‐Assisted Ultrasound for Enhanced Intratumor Accumulation and Improved Cancer Theranostics

Z Meng, Y Zhang, E Shen, W Li, Y Wang… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The low delivery efficiency of nanoparticles to solid tumors greatly reduces the therapeutic
efficacy and safety which is closely related to low permeability and poor distribution at tumor …

Intricately structured mesoporous organosilica nanoparticles: synthesis strategies and biomedical applications

J Tao, X Su, J Li, W Shi, Z Teng, L Wang - Biomaterials Science, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Intricately structured mesoporous organosilica nanoparticles (IMONs) are being increasingly
studied from their synthesis strategies to their use in biomedical applications, because of …