Tailoring porous silicon for biomedical applications: from drug delivery to cancer immunotherapy

W Li, Z Liu, F Fontana, Y Ding, D Liu… - Advanced …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
In the past two decades, porous silicon (PSi) has attracted increasing attention for its
potential biomedical applications. With its controllable geometry, tunable nanoporous …

Porous silicon nanoparticles for nanomedicine: preparation and biomedical applications

HA Santos, E Mäkilä, AJ Airaksinen, LM Bimbo… - …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
The research on porous silicon (PSi) materials for biomedical applications has expanded
greatly since the early studies of Leigh Canham more than 25 years ago. Currently, PSi …

Discoidal porous silicon particles: fabrication and biodistribution in breast cancer bearing mice

B Godin, C Chiappini, S Srinivasan… - Advanced functional …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Porous silicon (pSi) is emerging as a promising material in the development of nanovectors
for the systemic delivery of therapeutic and imaging agents. The integration of …

Drug-releasing implants: current progress, challenges and perspectives

A Santos, MS Aw, M Bariana, T Kumeria… - Journal of Materials …, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
The need for more efficient drug delivery strategies to treat resilient diseases and the rise of
micro and nanotechnology have led to the development of more sophisticated drug …

A lectin-coupled porous silicon-based biosensor: label-free optical detection of bacteria in a real-time mode

M Yaghoubi, F Rahimi, B Negahdari, AH Rezayan… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Accuracy and speed of detection, along with technical and instrumental simplicity, are
indispensable for the bacterial detection methods. Porous silicon (PSi) has unique optical …

Porous silicon for drug delivery applications and theranostics: recent advances, critical review and perspectives

T Kumeria, SJP McInnes, S Maher… - Expert opinion on drug …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: Porous silicon (pSi) engineered by electrochemical etching has been used as a
drug delivery vehicle to address the intrinsic limitations of traditional therapeutics …

Composite Porous silicon–silver nanoparticles as theranostic antibacterial agents

T Kim, GB Braun, Z She, S Hussain… - … Applied Materials & …, 2016 - ACS Publications
A theranostic nanoparticle with biochemically triggered antibacterial activity is demonstrated.
Metallic silver is deposited onto porous silicon nanoparticles (pSiNPs) by galvanic …

Recent advances in surface engineering of porous silicon nanomaterials for biomedical applications

Y Jung, Y Huh, D Kim - Microporous and Mesoporous Materials, 2021 - Elsevier
Surface engineering of the nanomaterials opens a new era of their biomedical applications.
To date, various kinds of nanoparticles and their surface engineering techniques have been …

Surface chemistry of porous silicon and implications for drug encapsulation and delivery applications

KL Jarvis, TJ Barnes, CA Prestidge - Advances in colloid and interface …, 2012 - Elsevier
Porous silicon (pSi) has a number of unique properties that appoint it as a potential drug
delivery vehicle; high loading capacity, controllable surface chemistry and structure, and …

Dexamethasone conjugates: Synthetic approaches and medical prospects

NV Dubashynskaya, AN Bokatyi, YA Skorik - Biomedicines, 2021 - mdpi.com
Dexamethasone (DEX) is the most commonly prescribed glucocorticoid (GC) and has a
wide spectrum of pharmacological activity. However, steroid drugs like DEX can have …