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ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH
Volume 47, Issue 1, Pages 125-137Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ar400091e
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- National Nature Science Foundation of China [51132009, 51072212]
- National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program) [2011CB707905]
- China National Funds for Distinguished Young Scientists [51225202]
- Nano special program of the Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai [11 nm0506500]
- Foundation for Youth Scholar of State Key Laboratory of High Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructures [SKL201203]
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Colloidal hollow mesoporous silica nanoparticles (HMSNs) are a special type of silica-based nanomaterials with penetrating mesopore channels on their shells. HMSNs exhibit unique structural characteristics useful for diverse applications: Firstly, the hollow interiors can function as reservoirs for enhanced loading of guest molecules, or as nanoreactors for the growth of nanocrystals or for catalysis in confined spaces. Secondly, the mesoporous silica shell enables the free diffusion of guest molecules through the intact shell. Thirdly, the outer silica surface Is ready for chemical modifications, typically via its abundant Si-OH bonds. As early as 2003, researchers developed a soft-templating method to prepare hollow aluminosilicate spheres with penetrating mesopores in a cubic symmetry pattern on the shells. However, adapting this method for applications on the nanoscale, especially for biomedicine, has proved difficult because the soft templating micelles are very sensitive to liquid environments, making it difficult to tune key parameters such as dispersity, morphology and structure. In this Account, we present the most recent developments in the tailored construction of highly dispersive and monosized HMSNs using simple silica-etching chemistry, and we discuss these particles excellent performance in diverse applications. We first introduce general principles of silica-etching chemistry for controlling the chemical composition and the structural parameters (particle size, pore size, etching modalities, yolk-shell nanostructures, etc.) of HMSNs. Secondly, we include recent progress in constructing heterogeneous, multifunctional, hollow Mesoporous silica nanorattles via several methods for diverse applications. These elaborately designed HMSNs could be topologically transformed to prepare hollow mesoporous carbon nanoparticles or functionalized to produce HMSN-based composite nanomaterials. Especially In biomedicine, HMSNs are excellent as carriers to deliver either hydrophilic or hydrophobic anti-cancer drugs, to tumor cells, offering enhanced chemotherapeutic efficacy and diminished toxic side effects. Most recently, research has shown that loading one or more anticancer drugs into HMSNs can inhibit metastasis or reverse multidrug resistance of cancer cells. HMSNs could also deliver hydrophobic perfluorohexane (PFH) molecules to improve high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) cancer surgery by changing the tissue acoustic environment; and HMSNs could act as nanoreactors for enhanced catalytic activity and/or durability. The versatility of silica-etching chemistry, a simple but scalable synthetic methodology, offers great potential for the creation of new types of HMSN-based nanostructures In a range of applications.
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