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Porous silica coated gold nanocages for chemo-photothermal combined therapy
The combination therapy that combines drug delivery with other treatments (e.g., photothermal therapy) has great advantages in treating tumors. Here, we prepared a promising versatile platform based on gold na...
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Fabrication of HAP/Ag/SSD ternary nanocomposite and its antibacterial properties
Hydroxyapatite/silver/silver sulfadiazine ternary nanocomposite (HAP/Ag/SSD TNC) with a novel hierarchical structure was successfully fabricated as following steps. First, mesoporous hydroxyapatite (HAP) nanor...
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Multifunctional porous silica nanoparticles for dual responsive drug release
Porous silica nanoparticles (PSNs) were prepared by hydrolysis of tetraethyl orthosilicate and 3-aminopropyltriethoxysilane in emulsion. The PSN carriers with hierarchical pores are suitable for loading drug a...
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Tri-responsive porous silica carrier with gold nanoparticles for chemophotothermal combination therapy
A multifunctional nanoplatform (pSiO2–Au/HA) combining porous silica (pSiO2) carriers and gold nanoparticles (Au NPs) was synthesized for chemophotothermal synergistic therapy. The pSiO2 carrier has the diameter ...
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Fabrication of a silica nanocarrier with large-pore core and mesoporous shell for pH-responsive drug delivery
Core/shell porous silica (CSPS) nanoparticles (NPs) with large-pore core and mesoporous shell were successfully fabricated by a one-pot emulsion method. The obtained CSPS sample presents spherical shape with a...
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Synthesis and antibacterial activity of Ag/CeO2 hybrid architectures
Flower-like ceria (CeO2) architectures consisting of well aligned nanosheets were first synthesized by a glycol solvothermal method. The size of CeO2 architectures is about 5 μm in width and 10 μm in length, with...
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Synthesis of silica nanospheres with Ni2+-iminodiacetic acid for protein separation
Silica (SiO2) nanospheres (NSs) with immobilized metal ligands have been prepared for the affinity separation of proteins. First, SiO2 NSs were prepared by controlled hydrolysis of tetraethoxysilane in a basic a...
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Facile synthesis of micrometer FeS/PVP architectures with the aid of thiourea
Micrometer-sized flowerlike FeS/poly(vinyl pyrrolidone)(PVP) architectures were synthesized by solvothermal process with the aid of thiourea, in which PVP may serve as soft templates. The FeS/PVP flowers have ...