Review
Chemistry, Inorganic & Nuclear
Neha Benedicta Fernandes, Yogendra Nayak, Sanjay Garg, Usha Y. Nayak
Summary: The field of advanced nanotechnology offers a wide range of nanotheranostics for treating malignant tumors. Among them, Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles (MSNs) combined with upconversion nanoparticles have gained prominence in biomedicine research due to their remarkable properties in drug targeting, bio-imaging, and photodynamic/photothermal therapy. MSNs have versatile pore sizes, high drug loading efficiency, and can be functionalized to enhance their applicability. This article focuses on MSN-based hybrid nanotheranostics and their designing strategies, characterization, applications, efficacy, limitations, biotoxicity, as well as current challenges and future perspectives.
COORDINATION CHEMISTRY REVIEWS
(2023)
Review
Materials Science, Ceramics
Camilla Berg, Le Fu, Yihong Liu, Hakan Engqvist, Wei Xia
Summary: Hollow microstructured-and nanostructured-materials, also known as core-shell particles, have attracted great attention for their fascinating physicochemical properties and potential applications. Various synthesis strategies have been explored to fabricate these particles with different morphologies, compositions, and microstructures. Soft-templating with nanobubbles has emerged as a feasible and effective method, leading to the preparation of inorganic core-shell particles. However, a comprehensive review of this field is still lacking. This paper provides a review of the formation methods, stability, and stabilization strategies of nanobubbles, as well as the characteristics and formation mechanisms of core-shell particles prepared using nanobubble soft templates. The concerns regarding nanobubbles as soft templates are also briefly discussed.
CERAMICS INTERNATIONAL
(2023)
Article
Engineering, Environmental
Leon F. Feitosa, Bruna B. Pozes, Arthur S. Silva, Lais F. Castro, Luiz Silvino Chinelatto Junior, Cristina B. Quitete, Marco A. Fraga
Summary: In this study, a series of organic-inorganic hybrids were designed by grafting 3-amino-propyltriethoxysilane (APTS) on SBA-15 using different solvents. Various characterization techniques were employed to evaluate the impact of solvents on the surface architecture, amine loading, APTS-SBA-15 linkage configuration, surface area, and pore volume. The results demonstrated a correlation between solvent polarity and the properties of the hybrids, highlighting the importance of solvent selection in influencing material performance.
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
(2021)
Article
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology
Maximiliano Jesus Jara Fornerod, Alberto Alvarez-Fernandez, Eric R. Williams, Maximilian W. A. Skoda, Beatriz Prieto-Simon, Nicolas H. Voelcker, Morgan Stefik, Marc-Olivier Coppens, Stefan Guldin
Summary: Mesoporous thin films are widely used for their high surface area and efficient mass and charge transport properties. A two-step calcination process can reduce film contraction and enhance structural control, resulting in mesoporous films with higher porosity and larger pores. These films exhibit favorable characteristics for mass transport of large molecules.
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
(2022)
Article
Chemistry, Inorganic & Nuclear
Matthias Maier, Vivien Zeh, Nadine Munker, Julian Glock, Kai Oberdorf, Ozan Ayhan, Crispin Lichtenberg, Holger Helten
Summary: The incorporation of BN units into organic scaffolds by isoelectronic/isosteric substitution has proven effective in producing new materials. However, the knowledge about BN-doped inorganic-organic hybrid polymers is limited, especially for linear or cyclolinear macromolecules with longer inorganic chains. In this study, 1,2,5-azadiborolane was introduced as a novel building block for polymers. By coupling it with a p-phenylene diamine-based co-monomer, a hybrid polymer with a B2N3 chain and a considerable molecular weight was obtained. The UV-vis spectra revealed a red-shift in the longest-wavelength absorption band with increasing number of BN units in the chain.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF INORGANIC CHEMISTRY
(2023)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Naoki Tarutani, Riona Sato, Wataru Yamazaki, Kiyofumi Katagiri, Kei Inumaru, Takamasa Ishigaki
Summary: The study introduces a new method for synthesizing organic-inorganic hybrid nanoparticles through intercalated acrylate polymerization, resulting in thermally robust mesoporous structures that can be formed at 200 degrees Celsius. Electrochemical characterization indicates improved diffusion of molecules/solvent in these materials.
Article
Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
Yuxiang Yang, Jie Li, Hongming Yuan, Riccardo Carlini, Xiangnong Liu
Summary: This study presents a method for preparing ordered mesoporous silica films using CTAB and P123 as directing agents, and TEOS as the silicon source. The effects of different acids, crystallization temperature, crystallization time, and the ratio of CTAB/TEOS on the orderliness of the meso-film material are investigated. The results show that well-ordered films can be obtained using nitric acid at a crystallization temperature of 20 degrees C for 3 days. Additionally, different acids, LiCl, and CTAB are studied to refine the results, revealing that the mesoporous silica film has different orders under different acids, the use of LiCl leads to the formation of a three-dimensional network-like ordered mesoporous silica film, and the addition of CTAB surfactant improves the order of the samples.
MATERIALS CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS
(2022)
Article
Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
Puttavva Meti, D. B. Mahadik, Kyu-Yeon Lee, Qi Wang, Kazuyoshi Kanamori, Young-Dae Gong, Hyung-Ho Park
Summary: This paper provides an overview of the strategies for strengthening silica aerogels using organic-inorganic hybridization. The mechanical properties of silica aerogels can be enhanced by incorporating polymers. The properties of composite aerogels can be adjusted by modifying the composition. The interfacial interaction between silica and polymers and the strengthening mechanism are discussed, and synthesis strategies and technical challenges are highlighted.
MATERIALS & DESIGN
(2022)
Article
Chemistry, Inorganic & Nuclear
Defu Sun, Duanliang Wang, Yangyang Dang, Shoubao Zhang, Hanzhang Chen, Ruoxian Hou, Kui Wu, Chuanying Shen
Summary: By combining d10 metal cation (Cd2+) with morpholine molecules, organic-inorganic hybrid materials for nonlinear optical (NLO) applications have been designed. The resulting structures exhibit centric structures with the second-order Jahn-Teller effect, resulting in strong second harmonic generation (SHG) responses.
INORGANIC CHEMISTRY
(2022)
Article
Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
Marina Zykova, Kristina Runina, Lidia Popkova, Olga Petrova, Artem Barkanov, Dinh Trung Do, Thu Trang Ta, Van Luong Nguyen, Andrew Khomyakov, Igor Avetissov, Roman Avetisov
Summary: Organic-inorganic luminescent hybrid films were prepared using two different methods, and their photoluminescent properties were studied. The results showed that all the films exhibited intense broadband luminescence.
APPLIED PHYSICS A-MATERIALS SCIENCE & PROCESSING
(2022)
Article
Chemistry, Physical
Fatma Ibraheem, Hany El-Bahnasawy, Iman A. Mahdy, Manal A. Mahdy, Esmat A. Mahmoud, J. Enrique Ortega, Martina Corso, Celia Rogero, Afaf El-Sayed
Summary: In this study, a new class of diluted magnetic quantum dots (DMQDs) was designed by hybridizing inorganic CdS quantum dots with organic iron phthalocyanine (FePc) molecules. Experimental results showed that FePc molecules transformed the CdS quantum dots into room-temperature soft ferromagnets, while effectively preserving the structure of the quantum dots.
JOURNAL OF ALLOYS AND COMPOUNDS
(2023)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Yuji Fujii, Shujun Zhou, Manabu Shimada, Masaru Kubo
Summary: A method was developed to synthesize hollow mesoporous nanoparticles with controllable size and shell thickness for drug-delivery applications. Monodispersed hollow mesoporous organosilica (HMOS) and hollow mesoporous silica (HMS) nanoparticles were successfully prepared using soft and hard templating methods. The hollow size of HMOS can be tuned by changing the size of the hard templates, and the shell thicknesses of HMOS and HMS can be adjusted by changing the amount of precursor used.
Article
Chemistry, Physical
Yuxiao Feng, Yingjie Du, Geling Kuang, Le Zhong, Hongtong Hu, Shiru Jia, Jiandong Cui
Summary: This study reports a new hierarchical micro-mesoporous zeolitic imidazolate framework-8 (ZIF-8) with core-shell superstructure (HZIF-8) for enzyme immobilization. The immobilized enzyme in HZIF-8 exhibited higher activity and substrate affinity compared to conventional microporous ZIF-8, showing improved stability and reusability. The obtained HZIF-8 also showed outstanding performance in co-immobilization of multienzyme for glucose detection.
JOURNAL OF COLLOID AND INTERFACE SCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Kouji Taniguchi, Masaki Nishio, Nobuyuki Abe, Po-Jung Huang, Shojiro Kimura, Taka-Hisa Arima, Hitoshi Miyasaka
Summary: This study reports chiral-polar ferromagnetic 2D-OIHP copper chlorides with discernable electric polarization in the inorganic layers. It has been found that a magneto-electric directional anisotropy can be induced by a low magnetic field, suggesting a new paradigm for designing functional ME multiferroics that effectively couples magnetic and electric properties.
ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION
(2021)
Article
Engineering, Multidisciplinary
Yan-jun Yin, Feng Hu, Le-hua Cheng, Xiao-dong Wang
Summary: In this study, a PTFE/Al/CuO organic-inorganic hybrid energetic film was successfully prepared for the first time using electrophoretic deposition. The addition of lithocholic acid as a surfactant enabled PTFE to be charged. The combustion process and energy release of PTFE/Al/CuO were found to be superior to Al/CuO due to the oxidability of PTFE accelerating the redox reaction between Al and CuO. This research sheds light on the preparation of fluoropolymer-containing organic-inorganic hybrid energetic films by one-step electrophoretic deposition.
DEFENCE TECHNOLOGY
(2023)