scholarly journals Rational design of yolk–shell nanostructures for drug delivery

RSC Advances ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (50) ◽  
pp. 30094-30109
Author(s):  
Ghodsi Mohammadi Ziarani ◽  
Parisa Mofatehnia ◽  
Fatemeh Mohajer ◽  
Alireza Badiei
Keyword(s):  
Drug Delivery ◽  
Rational Design ◽  
Recent Progress ◽  
Shell Nanoparticles ◽  
New Class ◽  
Shell Nanostructures ◽  
Hollow Nanostructures

The recent progress in yolk–shell nanoparticles (YSNPs) as a new class of hollow nanostructures applied for drug delivery.

Pluronic-Based Core/Shell Nanoparticles for Drug Delivery and Diagnosis

2013 ◽  
Vol 20 (28) ◽  
pp. 3488-3499 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yon Jung ◽  
Hwanbum Lee ◽  
Jae Kim ◽  
Eun Koo ◽  
Keun Oh ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Drug Delivery ◽  
Core Shell ◽  
Shell Nanoparticles ◽  
Core Shell Nanoparticles

Advances in the use of MOFs for Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment: An Overview

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (33) ◽  
pp. 4174-4184
Author(s):  
Marina P. Abuçafy ◽  
Bruna L. da Silva ◽  
João A. Oshiro-Junior ◽  
Eloisa B. Manaia ◽  
Bruna G. Chiari-Andréo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Drug Delivery ◽  
Drug Delivery Systems ◽  
Rational Design ◽  
Gas Adsorption ◽  
Drug Loading ◽  
Drug Carriers ◽  
Delivery Systems ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Anticancer Drug Delivery ◽  
Diagnostic Agents

Nanoparticles as drug delivery systems and diagnostic agents have gained much attention in recent years, especially for cancer treatment. Nanocarriers improve the therapeutic efficiency and bioavailability of antitumor drugs, besides providing preferential accumulation at the target site. Among different types of nanocarriers for drug delivery assays, metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have attracted increasing interest in the academic community. MOFs are an emerging class of coordination polymers constructed of metal nodes or clusters and organic linkers that show the capacity to combine a porous structure with high drug loading through distinct kinds of interactions, overcoming the limitations of traditional drug carriers explored up to date. Despite the rational design and synthesis of MOFs, structural aspects and some applications of these materials like gas adsorption have already been comprehensively described in recent years; it is time to demonstrate their potential applications in biomedicine. In this context, MOFs can be used as drug delivery systems and theranostic platforms due to their ability to release drugs and accommodate imaging agents. This review describes the intrinsic characteristics of nanocarriers used in cancer therapy and highlights the latest advances in MOFs as anticancer drug delivery systems and diagnostic agents.

Monocyclic Peptides: Types, Synthesis and Applications

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 123-135 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yalda Khazaei-poul ◽  
Shohreh Farhadi ◽  
Sepideh Ghani ◽  
Safar Ali Ahmadizad ◽  
Javad Ranjbari
Keyword(s):  
Drug Delivery ◽  
Cyclic Peptides ◽  
Rational Design ◽  
Bioactive Molecules ◽  
Synthesis Methods ◽  
Targeted Therapeutics ◽  
Diagnostic Agents ◽  
Linear Types ◽  
Microbial Agents ◽  
Structural Classes

: Peptides are considered to be appropriate tools in various biological fields. They can be primarily used for the rational design of bioactive molecules. They can act as ligands in the development of targeted therapeutics as well as diagnostics, can be used in the design of vaccines or can be employed in agriculture. Peptides can be classified in two broad structural classes: linear and cyclic peptides. Monocyclic peptides are a class of polypeptides with one macrocyclic ring that bears advantages, such as more selective binding and uptake by the target receptor, as well as higher potency and stability compared to linear types. This paper provides an overview of the categories, synthesis methods and various applications of cyclic peptides. The various applications of cyclic peptides include their use as pro-apoptotic and anti-microbial agents, their application as targeting ligands in drug delivery and diagnostic agents, as well as agricultural and therapeutics applications that are elaborated and discussed in this paper.

scholarly journals Iron Based Core-Shell Structures as Versatile Materials: Magnetic Support and Solid Catalyst

Catalysts ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 72
Author(s):  
Christian Zambrzycki ◽  
Runbang Shao ◽  
Archismita Misra ◽  
Carsten Streb ◽  
Ulrich Herr ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Water Purification ◽  
Functional Materials ◽  
Core Material ◽  
Solid Catalyst ◽  
Core Shell ◽  
Shell Nanoparticles ◽  
The Core ◽  
Shell Nanostructures ◽  
Sio2 Shell ◽  
Iron Based

Core-shell materials are promising functional materials for fundamental research and industrial application, as their properties can be adapted for specific applications. In particular, particles featuring iron or iron oxide as core material are relevant since they combine magnetic and catalytic properties. The addition of an SiO2 shell around the core particles introduces additional design aspects, such as a pore structure and surface functionalization. Herein, we describe the synthesis and application of iron-based core-shell nanoparticles for two different fields of research that is heterogeneous catalysis and water purification. The iron-based core shell materials were characterized by transmission electron microscopy, as well as N2-physisorption, X-ray diffraction, and vibrating-sample magnetometer measurements in order to correlate their properties with the performance in the target applications. Investigations of these materials in CO2 hydrogenation and water purification show their versatility and applicability in different fields of research and application, after suitable individual functionalization of the core-shell precursor. For design and application of magnetically separable particles, the SiO2 shell is surface-functionalized with an ionic liquid in order to bind water pollutants selectively. The core requires no functionalization, as it provides suitable magnetic properties in the as-made state. For catalytic application in synthesis gas reactions, the SiO2-stabilized core nanoparticles are reductively functionalized to provide the catalytically active metallic iron sites. Therefore, Fe@SiO2 core-shell nanostructures are shown to provide platform materials for various fields of application, after a specific functionalization.

scholarly journals Recent Progress in Polysaccharide Aerogels: Their Synthesis, Application, and Future Outlook

Polymers ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (8) ◽  
pp. 1347
Author(s):  
Arbanah Muhammad ◽  
Dabin Lee ◽  
Yonghun Shin ◽  
Juhyun Park
Keyword(s):  
Drug Delivery ◽  
Supercritical Co2 ◽  
Wound Dressing ◽  
Freeze Drying ◽  
Recent Progress ◽  
Present Review ◽  
Porous Structures ◽  
Air Filtration ◽  
Future Outlook ◽  
Synthetic Process

Porous polysaccharides have recently attracted attention due to their porosity, abundance, and excellent properties such as sustainability and biocompatibility, thereby resulting in their numerous applications. Recent years have seen a rise in the number of studies on the utilization of polysaccharides such as cellulose, chitosan, chitin, and starch as aerogels due to their unique performance for the fabrication of porous structures. The present review explores recent progress in porous polysaccharides, particularly cellulose and chitosan, including their synthesis, application, and future outlook. Since the synthetic process is an important aspect of aerogel formation, particularly during the drying step, the process is reviewed in some detail, and a comparison is drawn between the supercritical CO2 and freeze drying processes in order to understand the aerogel formation of porous polysaccharides. Finally, the current applications of polysaccharide aerogels in drug delivery, wastewater, wound dressing, and air filtration are explored, and the limitations and outlook of the porous aerogels are discussed with respect to their future commercialization.

The Synthesis and Catalytic Application of a New Class of Imprinted Silica

2003 ◽  
Vol 787 ◽  
Author(s):  
John D. Bass ◽  
Sandra L. Anderson ◽  
Alexander Katz
Keyword(s):  
Rational Design ◽  
Chemical Reactivity ◽  
Phenylboronic Acid ◽  
Coupling Reaction ◽  
Suzuki Coupling ◽  
Outer Sphere ◽  
Suzuki Coupling Reaction ◽  
New Class ◽  
Catalytic Application ◽  
Rate Acceleration

AbstractThe effect of chemical environment surrounding a synthetic heterogeneous catalyst active site is investigated using the hydrophilic imprinting of silica. Two model reaction systems have been used for this study: (i) Knoevenagel condensation of 3-nitrobenzaldehyde and malononitrile and (ii) Suzuki coupling of bromobenzene and phenylboronic acid. Using a catalyst in which isolated imprinted amines are surrounded by an acidic silanol-rich environment led to rate accelerations of over 120-fold relative to catalysts in which the amines are surrounded by a hydrophobic environment consisting of trimethylsilyl functional groups for system (i). This result parallels our previous study on the effect of the outer sphere composition on rate acceleration of Knoevenagel reactions using isophthalaldehyde as the aldehyde reactant. We also extended our method for the hydrophilic imprinting of bulk silica to organometallic systems, by successfully synthesizing a tethered palladium complex within the imprinted pocket. This material was used as an active catalyst for (ii). Our results show that a hydrophobic framework environment results in higher initial turnover frequencies than an acidic silanol-rich framework for the Suzuki coupling reaction of bromobenzene and phenylboronic acid, albeit with a lower overall effect than observed in the Knoevenagel system (i). Altogether, these results demonstrate the control of chemical reactivity via the rational design of the outer sphere using an imprinting approach.

Multifunctional quantum dot–polypeptide hybrid nanogel for targeted imaging and drug delivery

Nanoscale ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (19) ◽  
pp. 11282-11292 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jie Yang ◽  
Ming-Hao Yao ◽  
Lang Wen ◽  
Ji-Tao Song ◽  
Ming-Zhen Zhang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Drug Delivery ◽  
Quantum Dot ◽  
Cancer Diagnosis ◽  
Targeted Imaging ◽  
New Class

A new class of multifunctional quantum dot (QD)–polypeptide hybrid nanogel with targeted imaging and drug delivery properties is reported as a nanocarrier for use in cancer diagnosis, imaging, and therapy.

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