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 …

Silicon-containing nanomedicine and biomaterials: materials chemistry, multi-dimensional design, and biomedical application

L Chen, S Zhang, Y Duan, X Song, M Chang… - Chemical Society …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
The invention of silica-based bioactive glass in the late 1960s has sparked significant
interest in exploring a wide range of silicon-containing biomaterials from the macroscale to …

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 …

Photoluminescent and biodegradable porous silicon nanoparticles for biomedical imaging

Y Park, J Yoo, MH Kang, W Kwon, J Joo - Journal of Materials …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Porous silicon nanoparticles (PSiNPs) have attracted increasing interest as biomedical
probes for drug delivery and imaging. In particular, a set of unique properties including …

Oxidized mesoporous silicon microparticles for improved oral delivery of poorly soluble drugs

F Wang, H Hui, TJ Barnes, C Barnett… - Molecular …, 2010 - ACS Publications
Surface functionalized mesoporous silicon (pSi) microparticles are reported as a solid
dispersion carrier for improving dissolution and enhancing the orally administered …

Influence of Ca2+ and Suwannee River Humic Acid on aggregation of silicon nanoparticles in aqueous media

X Liu, M Wazne, T Chou, R **ao, S Xu - Water Research, 2011 - Elsevier
Silicon nanoparticles (NPs) have potential applications in many fields including
microelectronics, biomedical imaging, and most recently energetics. Even though silicon …

Electrochemical and corrosion stability of nanostructured silicon by graphene coatings: toward high power porous silicon supercapacitors

S Chatterjee, R Carter, L Oakes, WR Erwin… - The Journal of …, 2014 - ACS Publications
We demonstrate the electrochemical stability of nanostructured silicon in corrosive aqueous,
organic, and ionic liquid media enabled by conformal few-layered graphene heterogeneous …

Facile growth of vertically-aligned graphene nanosheets via thermal CVD: The experimental and theoretical investigations

H Wang, E Gao, P Liu, D Zhou, D Geng, X Xue, L Wang… - Carbon, 2017 - Elsevier
Owing to the distinctively morphological and structural features, vertically-aligned graphene
nanosheets (VGs) possess many unique properties and hold great promise for applications …

Protein delivery based on uncoated and chitosan-coated mesoporous silicon microparticles

E Pastor, E Matveeva, A Valle-Gallego… - Colloids and Surfaces B …, 2011 - Elsevier
Mesoporous silicon is a biocompatible, biodegradable material that is receiving increased
attention for pharmaceutical applications due to its extensive specific surface. This feature …

Immobilization of oligonucleotides on metal-dielectric nanostructures for miRNA detection

A Chiadò, C Novara, A Lamberti, F Geobaldo… - Analytical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
The development of nanostructured metal-dielectric materials, suitable for biodetection
based on surface plasmon resonance and surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) …