Chemical Research in Chinese Universities ›› 2022, Vol. 38 ›› Issue (4): 999-1004.doi: 10.1007/s40242-021-1248-6

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Fabrication of Mesoporous SiO2@CaSiO3 Hollow Spheres as Carriers for pH-sensitive Drug Delivery

YUAN Mingwei, SHI Shunli, LUO Yanping, YU Ying, WANG Shuhua, CHEN Chao   

  1. Key Laboratory of Jiangxi Province for Environment and Energy Catalysis, College of Chemistry, Nanchang University, Nanchang 330031, P. R. China
  • Received:2021-06-18 Revised:2021-08-18 Online:2022-08-01 Published:2021-08-23
  • Contact: WANG Shuhua;CHEN Chao E-mail:shwang@ncu.edu.cn;chaochen@ncu.edu.cn
  • Supported by:
    This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.21961021) and the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangxi Province, China (No.20202ACB203001).

Abstract: Hollow mesoporous silica(HM-SiO2) was prepared by the improved stober method. On this basis, HM-SiO2 was dispersed in an alkaline solution for surface etching. Meanwhile, calcium source was introduced to combine with on the surface to form a CaSiO3shell layer and an unprecedent SiO2@CaSiO3sphere with a hollow double-shell structure was obtained. The as-synthesized SiO2@CaSiO3 was characterized by X-ray diffraction(XRD), scanning electron microscopy(SEM), transmission electron microscopy(TEM), N2-BET, IR and UV-Vis techniques, and its sustained release capacity of doxorubicin(DOX) loading was investigated. The drug loading capacity can be achieved to 0.692 mg DOX/mg SiO2@CaSiO3, exhibiting pH-responsivity under low pH conditions.

Key words: Hollow nano-sphere, SiO2@CaSiO3, Drug delivery, pH-Sensitive