Abstract
Commercially available barium ferrite BaFe12O19 (BaFeO) nanoparticles with a size of ∼100 nm have been successfully encapsulated inside the hollow periodic mesoporous organosilica (HPMO) host material, through a 2-step (coating and encapsulation) approach. The resultant magnetic HPMO (MHPMO) nanoparticles possess a relatively high saturated magnetization (25 emu g-1) and a high enzyme loading capacity (1.32 mg/mg). It is further demonstrated that MHPMO materials exhibited enhanced cellulose tissue penetration behaviour under applied external magnetic field, promising for delivery applications to plant cells.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 7565-7571 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Journal | Journal of Materials Chemistry |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue number | 21 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 7 Jun 2011 |
| Externally published | Yes |