Mesoporous silicon: a platform for the delivery of therapeutics

Nanostructuring materials can radically change their proper-ties. Two interesting examples highlighted here are nanoscale porosity inducing biodegradability, and nanoscale confinement affecting the physical form of an entrapped drug. Mesoporous silicon is under increasing study for drug-delivery applications, and is the topic of this review. The authors focus on those proper-ties of most relevance to this application, as well as those recent studies published on small molecule and peptide/protein delivery.