Abstract
A facile and versatile method to prepare mesoporous core-shell nanostructures with a reversibly switchable nanoshell is reported. Reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) functionalities were anchored to the exterior surface of mesoporous silica nanoparticles (MSNs), forming RAFT agent coated MSNs. RAFT polymerization was then conducted to graft a poly(acrylic acid) (PAA) shell onto the exterior surface of MSNs, producing novel smart nanocontainers with a MSN as the container and a pH-responsive PAA nanoshell as a smart nanovalve. The PAA nanovalve can control the access of guest molecules to and from the MSN nanocontainer. This core-shell nanostructure should have potential applications in drug and gene delivery.
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