Silica Nanomaterials as Drug Delivery Vehicles

Nanosilica can be used to deliver drugs, such as new genes, proteins, small-molecule drugs or other nanoscale materials. In particular, the versatility of either the silica surface or the pores could be utilized as an effective delivery vehicle. 

Nanomechanical, electtonmagnetic devices, resonators, composite materials 

Symmetry, thousands of loadable parallel channels running from one end to other, large surface area-to-volume ratio 

Diagnosis, therapeutics, carriers (drugs and more), gas/metal ion absorbance 

Spherical fluorescein isothiocyanate-doped MS Ns (S-FITC-MSN) and tubular fluorescein isothiocyanate-doped MSNs (T-FITC-MSN) 

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