Journal
JOURNAL OF CONTROLLED RELEASE
Volume 111, Issue 1-2, Pages 81-88Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jconrel.2005.10.020
Keywords
porous hollow silica nanoparticles (PHSNs); shell thickness; controlled release; UV-shielding property; loading
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Preparation and characterization of porous hollow silica nanoparticles (PHSNs), with various shell thicknesses in the range of 5-45 nm and a pore diameter of about 4-5 nm, were investigated. PHSNs were fabricated via a sol-gel route with two different structure-directing templates and their shell thickness could be controlled by adjusting the reactant ratio of Na2SiO3 center dot 9H(2)O/CaCO3. The produced PHSNs were applied as controlled pesticide release carriers to study the effects of the shell thickness on the loading efficiency for avermectin, the UV-shielding property for the loaded avermectin and the controlled release of the loaded avermectin from the carriers. It was found that the amount of loaded avermectin decreases with the increase of shell thickness, while the UV-shielding property of PHSNs for avermectin is improved as the shell gets thicker. In addition, the shell thickness has a significant impact on avermectin release. Increasing the shell thickness in the range of 5-45 nm leads to a more sustained release by decreasing the release rate of the pesticide from PHSNs, showing that the shell thickness is one of the main controlling factors for the active agent release from such systems. (c) 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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