Porous Silicon for Biomedical Applications

Porous Silicon for Biomedical Applications
Author: Hélder A. Santos
Publisher: Woodhead Publishing
Total Pages: 646
Release: 2021-10-23
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0128225246

Porous Silicon for Biomedical Applications, Second Edition, provides an updated guide to the diverse range of biomedical applications of porous silicon, from biosensing and imaging to tissue engineering and cancer therapy. Across biomedical disciplines, there is an ongoing search for biomaterials that are biocompatible, modifiable, structurally sound, and versatile. Porous silicon possesses a range of properties that make it ideal for a variety of biomedical applications, such as controllable geometry, tunable nanoporous structure, large pore volume/high specific surface area, and versatile surface chemistry. This book provides a fully updated and detailed overview of the range of biomedical applications for porous silicon. Part One offers the reader a helpful insight into the fundamentals and beneficial properties of porous silicon, including thermal properties and stabilization, photochemical and nonthermal chemical modification, protein modification, and biocompatibility. The book then builds on the systematic detailing of each biomedical application using porous silicon, from bioimaging and sensing to drug delivery and tissue engineering. This new edition also includes new chapters on in-vivo assessment of porous silicon, photodynamic and photothermal therapy, micro- and nanoneedles, Raman imaging, cancer immunotherapy, and more. With its acclaimed editor and international team of expert contributors, Porous Silicon for Biomedical Applications, Second Edition, is a technical resource and indispensable guide for all those involved in the research, development, and application of porous silicon and other biomaterials, while providing a comprehensive introduction for students and academics interested in this field. Reviews the fundamental aspects of porous silicon, including the fabrication and unique properties of this useful material. Discusses a broad selection of biomedical applications, offering a detailed insight into the benefits of porous silicon in both research and clinical settings. Includes fully updated content from the previous edition, as well as brand new chapters, covering topics such as porous silicon micro- and nanoneedles, and cancer immunotherapy.

Porous Silicon for Biomedical Applications

Porous Silicon for Biomedical Applications
Author: Hélder A. Santos
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 644
Release: 2021-10-27
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0128216778

Porous Silicon for Biomedical Applications, Second Edition, provides an updated guide to the diverse range of biomedical applications of porous silicon, from biosensing and imaging to tissue engineering and cancer therapy. Across biomedical disciplines, there is an ongoing search for biomaterials that are biocompatible, modifiable, structurally sound, and versatile. Porous silicon possesses a range of properties that make it ideal for a variety of biomedical applications, such as controllable geometry, tunable nanoporous structure, large pore volume/high specific surface area, and versatile surface chemistry. This book provides a fully updated and detailed overview of the range of biomedical applications for porous silicon. Part One offers the reader a helpful insight into the fundamentals and beneficial properties of porous silicon, including thermal properties and stabilization, photochemical and nonthermal chemical modification, protein modification, and biocompatibility. The book then builds on the systematic detailing of each biomedical application using porous silicon, from bioimaging and sensing to drug delivery and tissue engineering. This new edition also includes new chapters on in-vivo assessment of porous silicon, photodynamic and photothermal therapy, micro- and nanoneedles, Raman imaging, cancer immunotherapy, and more. With its acclaimed editor and international team of expert contributors, Porous Silicon for Biomedical Applications, Second Edition, is a technical resource and indispensable guide for all those involved in the research, development, and application of porous silicon and other biomaterials, while providing a comprehensive introduction for students and academics interested in this field. Reviews the fundamental aspects of porous silicon, including the fabrication and unique properties of this useful material. Discusses a broad selection of biomedical applications, offering a detailed insight into the benefits of porous silicon in both research and clinical settings. Includes fully updated content from the previous edition, as well as brand new chapters, covering topics such as porous silicon micro- and nanoneedles, and cancer immunotherapy.

Porous Silicon: From Formation to Application: Biomedical and Sensor Applications, Volume Two

Porous Silicon: From Formation to Application: Biomedical and Sensor Applications, Volume Two
Author: Ghenadii Korotcenkov
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 418
Release: 2016-01-05
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1482264579

Porous silicon is rapidly attracting increasing interest from various fields, including optoelectronics, microelectronics, photonics, medicine, chemistry, and biosensing. This nanostructured and biodegradable material has a range of unique properties that make it ideal for many applications. For example, the pores and surface chemistry of the mater

Selective Sensing and Sustained Release

Selective Sensing and Sustained Release
Author: Geoffrey Ian Hollett
Publisher:
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2019
Genre:
ISBN:

Porous silicon has been investigated as a novel material for biomedical applications since the early 1990s. Owing to its low toxicity profile and unique properties, it has been utilized in a variety of manners, including biomedical imaging and sustained delivery applications discussed within. In the first portion of this dissertation, quantum confined domains of silicon were used as ratiometric fluorescent probes, in which the long-lived excited states were harnessed to generate wavelength-dependent quenching motifs. To further evaluate the performance of porous silicon as a biomedical imaging agent, it was then compared and contrasted against a series of luminescent silicon nanocrystals to probe which unique properties are intrinsic to all silicon nanocrystals and which are imbued during the fabrication process. Finally, porous silicon microparticles were used to sustain the delivery of hormonal progestins to develop injectable contraceptives with the goal of reducing maternal mortality rates in sub-Saharan Africa. Owing to the anisotropic dissolution of porous silicon, hydrophobic progestin molecules were able to be released from the porous particle host in a highly linear fashion and for longer periods of time than the unprotected controls. The progestins were incorporated into the porous particle via a technique known as melt casting, in which molten drug infiltrates and then recrystallizes within the porous structure. Strategies for melt casting thermally instable drugs were also explored. Particles containing segesterone acetate were found to be non-toxic and well tolerated in a cohort of adult female Sprague-Dawley rats over an extended period of time.

Porous Silicon in Practice

Porous Silicon in Practice
Author: M. J. Sailor
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2012-01-09
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3527641912

By means of electrochemical treatment, crystalline silicon can be permeated with tiny, nanostructured pores that entirely change the characteristics and properties of the material. One prominent example of this can be seen in the interaction of porous silicon with living cells, which can be totally unwilling to settle on smooth silicon surfaces but readily adhere to porous silicon, giving rise to great hopes for such future applications as programmable drug delivery or advanced, braincontrolled prosthetics. Porous silicon research is active in the fields of sensors, tissue engineering, medical therapeutics and diagnostics, photovoltaics, rechargeable batteries, energetic materials, photonics, and MEMS (Micro Electro Mechanical Systems). Written by an outstanding, well-recognized expert in the field, this book provides detailed, step-by-step instructions to prepare and characterize the major types of porous silicon. It is intended for those new to the fi eld. Sampling of topics covered: * Principles of Etching Porous Silicon * Etch Cell Construction and Considerations * Photonic Crystals, Microcavities, and Bragg Stacks Etched in Silicon * Preparation of Free-standing Films and Particles of Porous Silicon * Preparation of Photoluminescent Nanoparticles from Porous Silicon * Preparation of Silicon Nanowires by Electrochemical Etch of Silicon * Surface Modifi cation Chemistry and Biochemistry * Measurement of Optical Properties * Measurement of Pore Size, Porosity, Thickness, Surface Area The whole is backed by a generous use of color photographs to illustrate the described procedures in detail, plus a bibliography of further literature pertinent to a wide range of application fi elds. For materials scientists, chemists, physicists, optical physicists, biomaterials scientists, neurobiologists, bioengineers, and graduate students in those fields, as well as those working in the semiconductor industry.

Handbook of Porous Silicon

Handbook of Porous Silicon
Author: Leigh Canham
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018-06-07
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9783319713793

This handbook updates the most fast-moving research areas of porous silicon research, introduces a range of brand new topics not reviewed before and is even more inclusive of worldwide centres of expertise. Rapid advances are being made in porous silicon anodes for lithium batteries, biodegradable nanoparticles and nanoneedles for medical therapy and imaging, energetics and bio-diagnostic techniques. A number of additional characterization and processing techniques are also reviewed for the first time. Experts from 10 additional countries are involved in the 2nd edition: China, Vietnam, Singapore, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Netherlands, Switzerland, Belarus, and Brazil, making more than 40 countries in total. The handbook therefore covers expertise from every continent. Another new feature is a review dedicated to industrial activity. This second edition endeavours to provide the community with a truly comprehensive database and up-to-date commentary on this versatile nanostructured material.

Functionalized Porous Silicon for Applications in Chemical Sensing, Tumor Imaging and Drug Delivery

Functionalized Porous Silicon for Applications in Chemical Sensing, Tumor Imaging and Drug Delivery
Author: Sanahan Vijayakumar
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022
Genre:
ISBN:

For over 30 years, porous silicon as a material has been leveraged for its usefulness in biomedical and sensing applications. Its tunable structural features, low toxicity profile and readily modifiable surface render this material extremely useful for a wide variety of applications. By chemically modifying surface species, such as silicon hydrides and silicon oxides with silanes, the properties of porous silicon can be enhanced for its use for chemical sensing, biomedical imaging, and drug delivery. After a brief introduction to porous silicon materials, the first part of this dissertation details surface-modified porous silicon photonic crystals for the chemical sensing of toxic vapors and nerve agents. Chapter 2 utilizes a dual-peak porous silicon photonic crystal embedded with specific for the selective detection of hydrogen fluoride (HF), hydrogen cyanide (HCN), and the chemical nerve agent diisopropyl fluorophosphate (DFP). The pore walls are rendered hydrophobic with octadecylsilane to aid with the loading of the colorimetric molecules while being insensitive to humidity fluctuations. This provides a robust means to develop a remote detection system for chemical agents. Chapter 3 employs the same photonic crystal, modified, however, with a specialized protein-based gatekeeper that is rendered semi-permeable only in the presence of HCN. This is one of the first novel designs of a bio-inorganic sensor capable of detecting chemical agents with high specificity and precision. The second portion of the dissertation describes how surface-modified porous silicon nanoparticles can be applied in biomedical applications. The first project details the use of Anti-KIT protein DNA-aptamers decorated onto a fluorescently labelled porous silicon nanoparticle for the in vitro and in vivo imaging of gastrointestinal stromal tumors. This work provides an effective platform in which aptamer-conjugated porous silicon nanoparticle constructs can be used for the targeted imaging of KIT-expressing cancers. The final project utilizes hydrophobic porous silicon nanoparticles for the delivery of erucamide, a highly hydrophobic fatty acid amide, within the retina. By harnessing the versatility of porous silicon, erucamide's target cells and mechanism of neurotrophic action can be identified.

Porous Silicon

Porous Silicon
Author: Taylor & Francis Group
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020-08-14
Genre:
ISBN: 9780367570231

This three-volume set provides an updated, comprehensive, single reference of information on porous silicon that was previously scattered across numerous journal articles. The first volume reviews the fundamentals of silicon porosification as well as the properties and processing of porous silicon. The second volume discusses applications of por

Drug Delivery and Biomedical Applications of Porous Silicon-Based Nanocarriers

Drug Delivery and Biomedical Applications of Porous Silicon-Based Nanocarriers
Author: Rajendra Awasthi
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2025-05-01
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9780443248023

Drug Delivery and Biomedical Applications of Porous Silicon-Based Nanocarriers delivers an up-to-date and complete overview of the range of biomedical applications for porous silicon nanomaterials, with a special emphasis on drug delivery. This book introduces the fundamentals and beneficial properties of porous silicon, including thermal properties and stabilization, photochemical and nonthermal chemical modification, protein modification, and biocompatibility. The book then builds on the systematic detailing of each biomedical application using porous silicon, such as vaccine development, drug delivery, and tissue engineering. It also contains new insights on in-vivo assessment of porous silicon, photodynamic and photothermal therapy, micro- and nanoneedles, cancer immunotherapy, and more. Drug Delivery and Biomedical Applications of Porous Silicon-Based Nanocarriers is of interest to researchers in the fields of materials science, nanotechnology, pharmaceutical science, biomedical engineering, and cancer research.

Porous Silicon: From Formation to Application: Formation and Properties, Volume One

Porous Silicon: From Formation to Application: Formation and Properties, Volume One
Author: Ghenadii Korotcenkov
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 429
Release: 2016-04-21
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1482264552

Porous silicon is rapidly attracting increasing interest in various fields, including optoelectronics, microelectronics, photonics, medicine, chemistry, biosensing, and energy. Porous Silicon: Formation and Properties fills a gap in the literature of the field today, providing a thorough introduction to current knowledge of the formation, processin