Highly Thiolated Dendritic Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles with High-Content Gold as Nanozymes: The Nano-Gold Size Matters

  • Mohammad Kalantari
  • , Trisha Ghosh
  • , Yang Liu
  • , Jun Zhang
  • , Jin Zou
  • , Chang Lei*
  • , Chengzhong Yu
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Thiolated dendritic mesoporous silica nanoparticles (T-DMSNs) with ultrahigh density of thiol groups (284.6 ± 9 μmol g -1 ) are synthesized and used to load gold nanoparticles with tunable sizes (1.2-2.7 nm) and high content (34.0 wt %). It is demonstrated that the size of gold nanoparticles has a significant impact on their peroxidase-mimicking activity. At an optimized size of 1.9 nm, T-DMSNs@Au exhibits the highest activity. Our contribution provides new insights into the rational design of nanozymes for future applications.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)13264-13272
Number of pages9
JournalACS Applied Materials and Interfaces
Volume11
Issue number14
DOIs
StatePublished - 10 Apr 2019
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • dendritic
  • mesoporous silica
  • nano-gold
  • nanozyme
  • thiol

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