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Biodegradable hollow silica nanospheres containing gold nanoparticle arrays
Domenico Cassano1, Diego Rota Martir, Giovanni Signore
1Center for Nanotechnology Innovation@NEST, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Piazza San Silvestro, 12 - 56126, Pisa (PI), Italy. valerio.voliani@iit.it.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|May 23, 2015
Abstract:
We introduce biodegradable hollow silica nanocapsules embedding arrays of 3 nm gold nanoparticles. The silica shell degrades in full serum in a few hours, potentially allowing the clearance of the capsules and their contents by the efficient renal pathway, and thereby overcoming accumulation issues typical of metal nanoparticles.
