Sol–gel‐based advanced porous silica materials for biomedical applications

Q Lei, J Guo, A Noureddine, A Wang… - Advanced Functional …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Porous silica‐based materials have burgeoning applications ranging from fillers and
additives, to adsorbents, catalysts, and recently therapeutic agents and vaccines in …

Recent advances in subcellular targeted cancer therapy based on functional materials

WH Chen, GF Luo, XZ Zhang - Advanced Materials, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Recently, diverse functional materials that take subcellular structures as therapeutic targets
are playing increasingly important roles in cancer therapy. Here, particular emphasis is …

Fluorescent carbon quantum dots with intrinsic nucleolus-targeting capability for nucleolus imaging and enhanced cytosolic and nuclear drug delivery

XW Hua, YW Bao, FG Wu - ACS applied materials & interfaces, 2018 - ACS Publications
Nucleolus tracking and nucleus-targeted photodynamic therapy are attracting increasing
attention due to the importance of nucleolus and the sensitivity of nucleus to various …

Molecular and supramolecular switches on mesoporous silica nanoparticles

N Song, YW Yang - Chemical Society Reviews, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Nanotechnology has attracted much attention because it possesses many advantages to
engineer new organized nanomaterials and endow them with improved performance. In …

Boosting cancer therapy with organelle-targeted nanomaterials

P Gao, W Pan, N Li, B Tang - ACS applied materials & interfaces, 2019 - ACS Publications
The ultimate goal of cancer therapy is to eliminate malignant tumors while causing no
damage to normal tissues. In the past decades, numerous nanoagents have been employed …

Tumor acidity activating multifunctional nanoplatform for NIR-mediated multiple enhanced photodynamic and photothermal tumor therapy

J Liu, H Liang, M Li, Z Luo, J Zhang, X Guo, K Cai - Biomaterials, 2018 - Elsevier
The study reports a multifunctional nanoplatform based on mesoporous silica coated gold
nanorod (AuNR@ MSN) to overcome biological barriers associating with nanocarrier for …

Exploiting recent trends for the synthesis and surface functionalization of mesoporous silica nanoparticles towards biomedical applications

B Siddiqui, I Haq, AA Al-Dossary, A Elaissari… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Rapid progress in developing multifunctional nanocarriers for drug delivery has been
observed in recent years. Inorganic mesoporous silica nanocarriers (MSNs), emerged as an …

pH-responsive hyaluronate-anchored extracellular vesicles to promote tumor-targeted drug delivery

H Lee, H Park, GJ Noh, ES Lee - Carbohydrate polymers, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract pH-Responsive drug vehicles targeting the specific extracellular pH of tumors have
served as potent tools to overcome the limitation (eg., low tumor seletivity) in antitumor drug …

Stimuli-responsive peptide-based biomaterials as drug delivery systems

A Shah, MS Malik, GS Khan, E Nosheen… - Chemical Engineering …, 2018 - Elsevier
Stimuli-responsive proteins have gained a wide spread interest as functional biomaterials in
drug delivery area. However, particular attention has been diverted to peptide-based …

Recent advances in targeted tumor chemotherapy based on smart nanomedicines

SY Qin, AQ Zhang, XZ Zhang - Small, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Efficacy and safety of chemotherapeutic drugs constitute two major criteria in tumor
chemotherapy. Nanomedicines with tumor‐targeted properties hold great promise for …