- Composite Porous Silicon-Silver Nanoparticles as Theranostic Antibacterial Agents.
Composite Porous Silicon-Silver Nanoparticles as Theranostic Antibacterial Agents.
ACS applied materials & interfaces (2016-10-19)
Taeho Kim, Gary B Braun, Zhi-Gang She, Sazid Hussain, Erkki Ruoslahti, Michael J Sailor
PMID27754645
ABSTRACT
A theranostic nanoparticle with biochemically triggered antibacterial activity is demonstrated. Metallic silver is deposited onto porous silicon nanoparticles (pSiNPs) by galvanic displacement. When aqueous diaminesilver ([Ag(NH
