The degradation of mesoporous silica nanoparticles (MSNs) in the biological milieu due to silica hydrolysis plays a fundamental role for the delivery of encapsulated drugs and therapeutics. However, little is known on the evolution of the pore arrangement in the MSNs in biologically relevant conditions. Small Angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) studies were performed on unmodified and PEGylated MSNs with a MCM-48 pore structure and average sizes of 140 nm, exposed to simulated body fluid solution (SBF) at pH 7.4 for different time intervals from 30 min to 24 h. Experiments were performed with silica concentrations below, at and over 0.14 mg/mL, the saturation concentration of silica in water at physiological temperature. At silica concentrations of 1 mg/mL (oversaturation), unmodified MSNs show variation in interpore distances over 6 h exposure to SBF, remaining constant thereafter. A decrease in radius of gyration is observed over the same time. Mesoporosity and radius of gyration of unmodified MSNs remain then unchanged up to 24 h. PEGylated MSNs at 1 mg/mL concentration show a broader diffraction peak but no change in the position of the peak is observed following 24 h exposure to SBF. PEGylated MSNs at 0.01 mg/mL show no diffraction peaks already after 30 min exposure to SBF, while at 0.14 mg/mL a small diffraction peak is present after 30 min exposure but disappears after 1 h.

Impact of PEGylation on the degradation and pore organization in Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles: a study of the inner mesoporous structure in physiologically relevant ionic conditions / Ramírez, María de los Ángeles; Bindini, Elisa; Moretti, Paolo; Soler Illia, Galo J. A. A.; Amenitsch, Heinz; Andreozzi, Patrizia; Ortore, Maria Grazia; Moya, Sergio E.. - In: COLLOIDS AND SURFACES. B, BIOINTERFACES. - ISSN 0927-7765. - STAMPA. - 219:(2022). [10.1016/j.colsurfb.2022.112797]

Impact of PEGylation on the degradation and pore organization in Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles: a study of the inner mesoporous structure in physiologically relevant ionic conditions

Moretti, Paolo;Andreozzi, Patrizia;Ortore, Maria Grazia
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2022-01-01

Abstract

The degradation of mesoporous silica nanoparticles (MSNs) in the biological milieu due to silica hydrolysis plays a fundamental role for the delivery of encapsulated drugs and therapeutics. However, little is known on the evolution of the pore arrangement in the MSNs in biologically relevant conditions. Small Angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) studies were performed on unmodified and PEGylated MSNs with a MCM-48 pore structure and average sizes of 140 nm, exposed to simulated body fluid solution (SBF) at pH 7.4 for different time intervals from 30 min to 24 h. Experiments were performed with silica concentrations below, at and over 0.14 mg/mL, the saturation concentration of silica in water at physiological temperature. At silica concentrations of 1 mg/mL (oversaturation), unmodified MSNs show variation in interpore distances over 6 h exposure to SBF, remaining constant thereafter. A decrease in radius of gyration is observed over the same time. Mesoporosity and radius of gyration of unmodified MSNs remain then unchanged up to 24 h. PEGylated MSNs at 1 mg/mL concentration show a broader diffraction peak but no change in the position of the peak is observed following 24 h exposure to SBF. PEGylated MSNs at 0.01 mg/mL show no diffraction peaks already after 30 min exposure to SBF, while at 0.14 mg/mL a small diffraction peak is present after 30 min exposure but disappears after 1 h.
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