Journal
NANOMATERIALS
Volume 11, Issue 10, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/nano11102492
Keywords
network; Janus particles; enzymatic control; nanodevices; intercommunication
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- Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (MINECO) [CTQ2017-87954-P]
- MICINN [IJC2018-035658-I]
- Generalitat Valenciana [PROMETEO2018/024]
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The study presents a cooperative system based on new nanomaterials, using sucrose as input to trigger enzymatic control for sequential release of two different cargoes. This system has the potential to have various applications in fields like nanomedicine.
Inspired by biological systems, the development of artificial nanoscale materials that communicate over a short distance is still at its early stages. This work shows a new example of a cooperating system with intercommunicated devices at the nanoscale. The system is based on the new sucrose-responsive Janus gold-mesoporous silica (Janus Au-MS) nanoparticles network with two enzyme-powered nanodevices. These nanodevices involve two enzymatic processes based on invertase and glucose oxidase, which are anchored on the Au surfaces of different Janus Au-MS nanoparticles, and N-acetyl-L-cysteine and [Ru(bpy)(3)](2+) loaded as chemical messengers, respectively. Sucrose acts as the INPUT, triggering the sequential delivery of two different cargoes through the enzymatic control. Nanoscale communication using abiotic nanodevices is a developing potential research field and may prompt several applications in different disciplines, such as nanomedicine.
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