Uniform rattle-type hollow magnetic mesoporous spheres as drug delivery carriers and their sustained-release property

  • Wenru Zhao*
  • , Hangrong Chen
  • , Yongsheng Li
  • , Ang Li
  • , Meidong Lang
  • , Jianlin Shi
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

A novel kind of rattle-type hollow magnetic mesoporous sphere (HMMS) with Fe3O4 particles encapsulated in the cores of mesoporous silica microspheres has been successfully fabricated by sol-gel reactions on hematite particles followed by cavity generation with hydrothermal treatment and H2 reduction. Such a structure has the merits of both enhanced drug-loading capacity and a significant magnetization strength. The prepared HMMSs realize a relatively high storage capacity up to 302 mg g-1 when ibuprofen is used as a model drug, and the IBU-HMMS system has a sustained-release property, which follows a Fick's law.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)2780-2788
Number of pages9
JournalAdvanced Functional Materials
Volume18
Issue number18
DOIs
StatePublished - 23 Sep 2008
Externally publishedYes

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