Biocompatible, uniform, and redispersible mesoporous silica nanoparticles for cancer-targeted drug delivery in vivo

• Main Authors: Zhang, Quan, Wang, Xiaoling, Li, Pei-Zhou, Nguyen, Kim Truc, Wang, Xiao-Jun, Luo, Zhong, Zhang, Huacheng, Tan, Nguan Soon, Zhao, Yanli
• Other Authors: School of Materials Science & Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Materials::Nanostructured materials; DRNTU::Science::Medicine
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/99927; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/19650
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Engineering multifunctional nanocarriers for targeted drug delivery shows promising potentials to revolutionize the cancer chemotherapy. Simple methods to optimize physicochemical characteristics and surface composition of the drug nanocarriers need to be developed in order to tackle major challenge...