One-Step Synthesis of Cagelike Hollow Silica Spheres with Large Through-Holes for Macromolecule Delivery
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- 作者：Shengnan Wang ; Min Chen ; Limin Wu
- 刊名：ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
- 出版年：2016
- 出版时间：December 7, 2016
- 年：2016
- 卷：8
- 期：48
- 页码：33316-33325
- 全文大小：716K
- ISSN：1944-8252
文摘
A facile, one-step method to prepare cagelike hollow silica nanospheres with large through-holes (HSNLs) using a lysozyme-assisted O/W miniemulsion technique is presented. The tetraethoxysilane (TEOS)–xylene mixture forms oil droplets which are stabilized by the cationic surfactant cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB), cosurfactant hexadecane (HD), and protein lysozyme. HSNLs (with diameter of 300–460 nm) with large through-holes (10–30 nm) were obtained directly after ultrasonic treatment and aging. Lysozyme can not only stabilize the oil/water interface, assist the hydrolysis of TEOS, and interact with silica particles to assemble into silica-lysozyme clusters but also contribute to the formation of through-holes due to its hydrophilicity variation at different pH conditions. A possible new mechanism called the interface desorption method is proposed to explain the formation of the through-holes. To confirm the effectiveness of large through-holes in delivering large molecules, bovine serum albumin (BSA, 21 × 4 × 14 nm3) was chosen as a model guest molecule; HSNLs showed much higher loading capacity compared with common hollow mesoporous silica nanospheres (HMSNs). The release of BSA can be well controlled by wrapping HSNLs with a heat-sensitive phase change material (1-tetradecanol). Cell toxicity was also conducted with a Cell Counting Kit-8 (CCK-8) assay to roughly evaluate the feasibility of HSNLs in biomedical applications.