Multifunctional silica nanoparticles as a promising theranostic platform for biomedical applications

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (7) ◽  
pp. 1257-1272 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhigang Xu ◽  
Xiaoqian Ma ◽  
Yong-E. Gao ◽  
Meili Hou ◽  
Peng Xue ◽  
...  

Recent advances in the use of nonporous silica nanoparticles as theranostic platforms for various biomedical applications, particularly in drug delivery, bioimaging and bio-adhesives.

Author(s):  
Francesca Persano ◽  
Svetlana Batasheva ◽  
Gölnur Fakhrullina ◽  
Giuseppe Gigli ◽  
Stefano Leporatti ◽  
...  

Inorganic materials, in particular nanoclays and silica nanoparticles, have attracted enormous attention due to their versatile and tuneable properties, making them ideal candidates for a wide range of biomedical applications, such as drug delivery.


Mesoporous silica nanoparticles (MSNs) have been attracting great attention for the potential biomedical applications in the last decades. Due to the unique properties, such as tunable mesoporous structure, huge surface area, large pore volume, as well as the functional ability of surface, MSNs exhibit high loading capacity for therapeutic active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) and controllable release behavior. In this review, the applications of MSNs in pharmaceutics improving the bioavailability, reducing toxicity of loaded drugs, increasing cellular targeted delivery ability and recent advances in drug delivery are summarized.


2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (11) ◽  
pp. 1001-1016
Author(s):  
Sandra Ramírez-Rave ◽  
María Josefa Bernad-Bernad ◽  
Jesús Gracia-Mora ◽  
Anatoly K. Yatsimirsky

Hybrid materials based on Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles (MSN) have attracted plentiful attention due to the versatility of their chemistry, and the field of Drug Delivery Systems (DDS) is not an exception. MSN present desirable biocompatibility, high surface area values, and a well-studied surface reactivity for tailoring a vast diversity of chemical moieties. Particularly important for DDS applications is the use of external stimuli for drug release. In this context, light is an exceptional alternative due to its high degree of spatiotemporal precision and non-invasive character, and a large number of promising DDS based on photoswitchable properties of azobenzenes have been recently reported. This review covers the recent advances in design of DDS using light as an external stimulus mostly based on literature published within last years with an emphasis on usually overlooked underlying chemistry, photophysical properties, and supramolecular complexation of azobenzenes.


Author(s):  
Ranhua Xiong ◽  
Ronald X. Xu ◽  
Chaobo Huang ◽  
Stefaan De Smedt ◽  
Kevin Braeckmans

This review presents an overview of the recent advances in the development of stimuli-responsive nanobubbles and their novel biomedical applications including bio-imaging, drug delivery and ablation of tumor tissues.


2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 1089-1104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fang Fang ◽  
Fanling Meng ◽  
Liang Luo

This review summarized most recent advances of designing strategies of polydiacetylene-based smart biomaterials with unique colorimetric and mechanical properties, as well as their applications in biosensing, drug delivery, and tissue engineering.


2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 469-483 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jian Yang ◽  
Xinli Liu ◽  
Yunzhi Fu ◽  
Yujun Song

Soft Matter ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (8) ◽  
pp. 1704-1715 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jieling Li ◽  
Ruirui Xing ◽  
Shuo Bai ◽  
Xuehai Yan

The review introduces several methods for fabrication of robust peptide-based hydrogels and their biological applications in the fields of drug delivery and antitumor therapy, antimicrobial and wound healing materials, and 3D bioprinting and tissue engineering.


2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 285-295 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaohui Pu ◽  
Jia Li ◽  
Peng Qiao ◽  
Mengmeng Li ◽  
Haiyan Wang ◽  
...  

Background: With the development of nanotechnology, nanocarrier has widely been applied in such fields as drug delivery, diagnostic and medical imaging and engineering in recent years. Among all of the available nanocarriers, mesoporous silica nanoparticles (MSNs) have become a hot issue because of their unique properties, such as large surface area and voidage, tunable drug loading capacity and release kinetics, good biosafety and easily modified surface. Objective: We described the most recent progress in silica-assisted drug delivery and biomedical applications according to different types of Cargo in order to allow researchers to quickly learn about the advance in this field. Methods: Information has been collected from the recently published literature available mainly through Title or Abstract search in SpringerLink and PubMed database. Special emphasis is on the literature available during 2008-2017. Results: In this review, the major research advances of MSNs on the drug delivery and biomedical applications were summarized. The significant advantages of MSNs have also been listed. It was found that the several significant challenges need to be addressed and investigated to further advance the applications of these structurally defined nanomaterials. Conclusion: Through approaching this review, the researchers can be aware of many new synthetic methods, smart designs proposed in the recent year and remaining questions of MSNs at present.


2018 ◽  
pp. 1424-1447
Author(s):  
Irshad Ahmad Wani

Magnetic nanoparticles due to their unique magnetic phenomenon, are gaining immense interest due to the utilization of these properties for a wide variety of applications in various arena especially in biomedical field. This book chapter, therefore, summarizes the synthesis of various types of magnetic nanoparticles using different approaches depending of their ability to generate either single core of multcore magnetic nanoparticles. The various biomedical applications of magnetic nanoparticles like Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), drug delivery etc. along with possible limitations and challenges for their extended applications in medicine are also discussed.


2018 ◽  
pp. 837-858 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irshad Ahmad Wani

Gold nanoparticles are the subject of intense studies due to the exceptional photo-optical properties combined with the biocompatibility and has proved to be a powerful tool in various nanomedicinal applications. This book chapter discusses the recent advances and current challenges facing the biomedical applications of gold nanoparticles of various sizes and shapes. This chapter summarizes the applications of gold nanoparticles in biomedical area including diagnostic imaging, biosensing, drug delivery, and photothermal and photodynamic strategies etc. The key advantages of the gold nanoparticles including their ease of synthesis and functionalization together with biodistribution and toxicity has also been discussed.


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