Abstract
This paper presents a facile procedure to fabricate uniform-sized hollow silica nanoparticles (SNP) under a mild condition by using cationic spherical polyelectrolyte brushes (SPB) with a polystyrene (PS) core and densely grafted poly(2-aminoethyl methacrylate hydrochloride) (PAEMH) brush shell as a catalytic template. By changing the brush layer thickness of SPB, hollow SNP with different silica shell thickness could be easily obtained. This method provides a new way for the preparation of hollow SNP without additional catalyst. The obtained hollow SNP exhibited a high-drug encapsulation efficiency (80%) for doxorubicin hydrochloride (DOX), should be of significance in the fields of drug delivery, cancer therapy, and bioimaging.
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