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Towards chemical communication between gated nanoparticles.
Elena AznarM. Dolores MarcosEstela ClimentPedro AmorósCristina GiménezRamón Martínez-máñezKnut RurackFélix Sancenónsubject
INGENIERIA DE LA CONSTRUCCIONGovernmentQUIMICA INORGANICALibrary scienceNanotechnologyGeneral ChemistryNanoparticles communityChemical communicationSilicon DioxideChemical communicationMesoporous materialsCatalysisGated nanoparticlesQUIMICA ORGANICADrug Delivery SystemsPolitical scienceQUIMICA ANALITICANanoparticlesNanotechnologyPhenazinesChristian ministryIndicators and ReagentsColoring AgentsPorositydescription
The design of comparatively simple and modularly configurable artificial systems able to communicate through the exchange of chemical messengers is, to the best of our knowledge, an unexplored field. As a proof-of-concept, we present here a family of nanoparticles that have been designed to communicate with one another in a hierarchical manner. The concept involves the use of capped mesoporous silica supports in which the messenger delivered by a first type of gated nanoparticle is used to open a second type of nanoparticle, which delivers another messenger that opens a third group of gated nanoobjects.We believe that the conceptual idea that nanodevices can be designed to communicate with one another may result in novel applications and will boost further advances towards cooperative systems with complex behavior as a result of the communication between simple abiotic individual components.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-05-23 | Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) |