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Preparation of Functional Silica Using a Bioinspired Method
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Enhanced release of itraconazole from ordered mesoporous SBA-15 silica materials
Randy Mellaerts1, Caroline A Aerts, Jan Van Humbeeck
1Centre for Surface Chemistry and Catalysis, Kasteelpark Arenberg 23, Catholic University of Leuven, BE-3001, Heverlee, Belgium. johan.martens@biw.kuleuven.be.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|March 23, 2007
Abstract:
This in vitro study reports on the enhanced release of the hydrophobic drug itraconazole from the ordered mesoporous SBA-15 silica material and on the existence of a critical mesopore diameter for enhancing release.
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