Remotely nano-rupturable yolk/shell capsules for magnetically-triggered drug release

Shang Hsiu Hu, You Yin Chen, Ta Chung Liu, Tsan Hua Tung, Dean Mo Liu*, San Yuan Chen

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Abstract

Yolk/shell capsules containing a volume/hydrophobicity transformable core and an ultra-thin silica shell have been prepared. When an external magnetic field induced the temperature, the cores exhibit a significant triggering size shrinkage and the diameter decreases more than 10 times, causing solid shells destruction and physical collapse, leading to drug burst release.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1776-1778
Number of pages3
JournalChemical Communications
Volume47
Issue number6
DOIs
StatePublished - 14 Feb 2011

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