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Nanoparticles mimicking viral surface topography for enhanced cellular delivery

  • Yuting Niu
  • , Meihua Yu
  • , Sandy B. Hartono
  • , Jie Yang
  • , Hongyi Xu
  • , Hongwei Zhang
  • , Jun Zhang
  • , Jin Zou
  • , Annette Dexter
  • , Wenyi Gu
  • , Chengzhong Yu*
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • University of Queensland

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Abstract

Novel silica nanoparticles mimicking virus surface topography are prepared. It is demonstrated that increases in nanoscale surface roughness promote both binding of biomolecules and cellular uptake; thus, the cellular delivery efficiency is significantly increased (scale bars 20â€...μm).

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)6233-6237
Number of pages5
JournalAdvanced Materials
Volume25
Issue number43
DOIs
StatePublished - 20 Nov 2013
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • biomimetic synthesis
  • drug delivery
  • nanoparticles
  • surface topography

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