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REVIEW ON PROPERTIES AND APPLICATIONS OF MESOPOROUS SILICA NANOPARTICLE

Uzma N. M. Arif* and Pritesh V. More

Abstract

The Mesoporous silica nanoparticles have nanoporous structure and high Surface Area with large pore volume, and pore size facilitates the better performance in loading of drug overcoming the lacking properties such as specificity and solubility of drug molecule due to which patient is required to take high doses of drug to reach the therapeutic effect for the disease treatment. In this paper, a comprehensive literature of mesoporous silica nanoparticle on the properties such as particle size, pore size, surface area, etc. and applications in drug delivery system, bioavailability enhancement, imaging and diagnostic agent, biomedical application and in food have been compiled and reviewed.

Keywords: Mesoporous silica nanoparticle, nanoporous, drug delivery system, bioavailability enhancement, imaging and diagnostic agent, biomedical.