Titel
Disulfide-Bridged Organosilica Frameworks: Designed, Synthesis, Redox-Triggered Biodegradation, and Nanobiomedical Applications
Autor*in
Xin Du
Research Center for Bioengineering and Sensing Technology, School of Chemistry and Biological Engineering, Beijing Key Laboratory for Bioengineering and Sensing Technology, University of Science and Technology Beijing
Autor*in
Xiaoyu Li
Key Laboratory of Green Process and Engineering, Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences
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Abstract
Over the past few years, silica‐based nanotheranostics have demonstrated their great potential for nano/biomedical applications. However, the uncontrollable and difficult degradability of their pure silica framework and long‐time in vivo retention still cause severe and unpredictable toxicity risks. Therefore, it is highly desirable to design and synthesize materials with safer framework structures and compositions. To this aim, the introduction of disulfide bonds into the silica framework can not only maintain high stability in physiological conditions, but also achieve a stimuli‐responsive biodegradation triggered by intracellular reducing microenvironment in living cells, especially in cancer cells. Once nanotheranostics with disulfide (i.e., thioether)‐bridged silsesquioxane framework are taken up by tumor cells via passive or active targeting, the disulfide bonds in the hybrid silica matrix can be cleaved by a high concentration of intracellular glutathione, enabling redox‐triggered biodegradation of the nanosystems for both concomitant release of the loaded therapeutic cargo and in vivo clearance. It is envisioned that such hybrid materials comprised of disulfide‐bridged silsesquioxane frameworks can become promising responsive and biodegradable nanotheranostics. This review summarizes the recent advances in the synthesis of hybrid organosilicas with disulfide‐bridged silsesquioxane frameworks, and discuss their redox‐triggered biodegradation behaviors combined with their biocompatibility and nanobiomedical applications.
Stichwort
biocompatibilitydisulfide‐bridged silsesquioxane frameworksmesoporous silica nanoparticlesnanobiomedicineredox‐triggered biodegradation
Objekt-Typ
Sprache
Englisch [eng]
Persistent identifier
https://phaidra.univie.ac.at/o:996639
Erschienen in
Titel
Advanced Functional Materials
Band
28
Ausgabe
26
Verlag
Wiley
Erscheinungsdatum
2018
Zugänglichkeit
Rechteangabe
© 2018 The Authors

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