Core--shell designs of photoluminescent nanodiamonds with porous silica coatings for bioimaging and drug delivery II: application

  • Neeraj Prabhakar
  • , Tuomas Näreoja
  • , Eva von Haartman
  • , Didem Sen Karaman
  • , Hua Jiang
  • , Sami Koho
  • , Tatians A.Dolenko [Unknown]
  • , Pekka E. Hänninen
  • , Denis I. Vlasov
  • , Victor G. Ralchenko
  • , Satoru Hosomi
  • , Igor I. Vlasov
  • , Cecilia Sahlgren
  • , Jessica M. Rosenholm

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    Abstract

    Recent advances within materials science and its interdisciplinary applications in biomedicine have emphasized the potential of using a single multifunctional composite material for concurrent drug delivery and biomedical imaging. Here we present a novel composite material consisting of a photoluminescent nanodiamond (ND) core with a porous silica (SiO2) shell. This novel multifunctional probe serves as an alternative nanomaterial to address the existing problems with delivery and subsequent tracing of the particles. Whereas the unique optical properties of ND allows for long-term live cell imaging and tracking of cellular processes, mesoporous silica nanoparticles (MSNs) have proven to be efficient drug carriers. The advantages of both ND and MSNs were hereby integrated in the new composite material, ND@MSN. The optical properties provided by the ND core rendered the nanocomposite suitable for microscopy imaging in fluorescence and reflectance mode, as well as super-resolution microscopy as a STED label; whereas the porous silica coating provided efficient intracellular delivery capacity, especially in surface-functionalized form. This study serves as a demonstration how this novel nanomaterial can be exploited for both bioimaging and drug delivery for future theranostic applications.
    Original languageUndefined/Unknown
    Pages (from-to)3713–3722
    JournalNanoscale
    Volume5
    Issue number9
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2013
    MoE publication typeA1 Journal article-refereed

    Funding

    All authors want to thank the Academy of Finland and Russian Foundation for Basic Research bilateral project “Fluorescent nanodiamond markers and nanodiamond–silica composites for biology and medicine: Efficiency and stability of photoemission versus surface chemistry” (AKA #137101, 10-03-91752-AF_a) for financial support. The authors further acknowledge funding from the Academy of Finland (projects #140193, #260599 (J.M.R.), #131034, #218062 (C.S.) #126998 (T.N. and P.H.)), Center of Excellence for Functional Materials (Finland) (D.S.K.), ISB graduate school (T.N. and P.H.), the Federal Program of the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia, grant 8398 (T.D.), Russian Ministry of Education and Science, President's grant for leading scientific schools no. 3076.2012.2 (I.V.), and from the Russian Academy of Sciences, program no. 24 (I.V.).

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