Si-Han Wu, Chung-Yuan Mou, Hong-Ping Lin
Department of Chemistry, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan 106.
Chemical Society reviews 2013 May 7Good control of the morphology, particle size, uniformity and dispersity of mesoporous silica nanoparticles (MSNs) is of increasing importance to their use in catalyst, adsorption, polymer filler, optical devices, bio-imaging, drug delivery, and biomedical applications. This review discusses different synthesis methodologies to prepare well-dispersed MSNs and hollow silica nanoparticles (HSNs) with tunable dimensions ranging from a few to hundreds of nanometers of different mesostructures. The methods include fast self-assembly, soft and hard templating, a modified Stöber method, dissolving-reconstruction and modified aerogel approaches. In practical applications, the MSNs prepared by these methods demonstrate good potential for use in high-performance catalysis, antireflection coating, transparent polymer-MSNs nanocomposites, drug-release and theranostic systems.
Si-Han Wu, Chung-Yuan Mou, Hong-Ping Lin. Synthesis of mesoporous silica nanoparticles. Chemical Society reviews. 2013 May 7;42(9):3862-75
PMID: 23403864
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