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Hydrophobicity-responsive engineered mesoporous silica nanoparticles: application in the delivery of essential nutrients to bacteria combating oil spills.
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Corvini, Nora Idrissi, Mohamed El Dimitriadou, Eleni Anastasia Corvini, Philippe F.-X. Shahgaldian, Patrick |
| Copyright Year | 2019 |
| Abstract | Facile chemical modification of mesoporous silica particles allows the production of gated reservoir systems capable of hydrophobicity-triggered release. Applied to the delivery of nutrients specifically to an oil phase, the systems developed have been shown to reliably assist the bacterial degradation of hydrocarbons. The gated system developed, made of C18 hydrocarbon chains, is demonstrated to be in a closed collapsed state in an aqueous environment, yet opens up through solvation by lipophilic alkanes and releases its content on contact with the oil phase. |
| Starting Page | 7478 |
| Ending Page | 7481 |
| Page Count | 4 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1039/c9cc02801c |
| PubMed reference number | 31184648 |
| Journal | Medline |
| Volume Number | 55 |
| Issue Number | 52 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/c9/cc/c9cc02801c/c9cc02801c1.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1039/c9cc02801c |
| Journal | Chemical communications |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |