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 …

Bottom-up synthesis of high surface area mesoporous crystalline silicon and evaluation of its hydrogen evolution performance

F Dai, J Zai, R Yi, ML Gordin, H Sohn, S Chen… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
As an important material for many practical and research applications, porous silicon has
attracted interest for decades. Conventional preparations suffer from high mass loss …

Recent advances in porous silicon technology for drug delivery

TJ Barnes, KL Jarvis, CA Prestidge - Therapeutic delivery, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Porous silicon (pSi) is a nanostructured carrier system that has received considerable
attention over the past 10 years, for use in a wide variety of biomedical applications …

Mechanism of the hydrosilylation reaction of alkenes at porous silicon: Experimental and computational deuterium labeling studies

LCPM de Smet, H Zuilhof, EJR Sudhölter… - The journal of …, 2005 - ACS Publications
The mechanism of the formation of Si− C bonded monolayers on silicon by reaction of 1-
alkenes with hydrogen-terminated porous silicon surfaces has been studied by both …

Adaptive chemistry of bifunctional gold nanoparticles at the air/water interface. A synchrotron X-ray study of giant amphiphiles

K Nørgaard, MJ Weygand, K Kjaer, M Brust… - Faraday …, 2004 - pubs.rsc.org
A series of ligand stabilized gold nanoparticles with diameters close to 3 nm were studied as
Langmuir monolayers at the air/water interface by synchrotron X-ray diffraction and …

Biofunctionalisation of porous silicon (PS) surfaces by using homobifunctional cross-linkers

B **a, SJ **ao, DJ Guo, J Wang, J Chao… - Journal of Materials …, 2006 - pubs.rsc.org
Porous silicon surfaces can be bio-functionalised by a simple three-step method. First the
hydrogen-terminated porous silicon was oxidised and amino-silanised in a one-pot reaction …

Thermal oxidation for controlling protein interactions with porous silicon

KL Jarvis, TJ Barnes, CA Prestidge - Langmuir, 2010 - ACS Publications
Thermal oxidation of porous silicon (pSi) has been used to control interactions with three
proteins; lysozyme, papain, and human serum albumin (HSA) enabling the influences of …

Immobilisation and synthesis of DNA on Si (111), nanocrystalline porous silicon and silicon nanoparticles

LH Lie, SN Patole, AR Pike, LC Ryder… - Faraday …, 2004 - pubs.rsc.org
Oligonucleotides have been synthesized on hydrogen-terminated Si (111) and porous
silicon using surface hydrosilation of difunctional molecules (1, ω-dimethoxytritylundecenol) …

In situ silanization reaction on the surface of freshly prepared porous silicon

HL Li, AP Fu, DS Xu, Guo, LL Gui, YQ Tang - Langmuir, 2002 - ACS Publications
An in situ silanization reaction on the surface of freshly prepared porous silicon (PS) has
been achieved at room temperature with a trace of amine as the catalyst. Infrared absorption …

The effect of surfactants on the reactivity and photophysics of luminescent nanocrystalline porous silicon

CA Canaria, M Huang, Y Cho… - Advanced Functional …, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
The effect of aqueous cationic and anionic surfactant solutions on the chemical stability and
photoluminescence (PL) of n‐and p‐type porous Si has been studied. Exposure of either n …