Surface-kinetics mediated mesoporous multipods for enhanced bacterial adhesion and inhibition.

Zhao, Tiancong; Chen, Liang; Wang, Peiyuan; Li, Benhao; Lin, Runfeng; Abdulkareem Al-Khalaf, Areej; Hozzein, Wael N; Zhang, Fan et al. · Nat Commun · 2019

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

Despite the importance of nanoparticle's multipods topology in multivalent-interactions enhanced nano-bio interactions, the precise manipulation of multipods surface topological structures is still a great challenge. Herein, the surface-kinetics mediated multi-site nucleation strategy is demonstrated for the fabrication of mesoporous multipods with precisely tunable surface topological structures. Tribulus-like tetra-pods Fe<sub>3</sub>O<sub>4</sub>@SiO<sub>2</sub>@RF&PMOs (RF = resorcinol-formaldehyde resin, PMO = periodic mesoporous organosilica) nanocomposites have successfully been fabricated with a centering core@shell Fe<sub>3</sub>O<sub>4</sub>@SiO<sub>2</sub>@RF nanoparticle, and four surrounding PMO nanocubes as pods. By manipulating the number of nucleation sites through mediating surface kinetics, a series of multipods mesoporous nanocomposites with precisely controllable surface topological structures are formed, including Janus with only one pod, nearly plane distributed dual-pods and tri-pods, three-dimensional tetrahedral structured tetra-pods, etc. The multipods topology endows the mesoporous nanocomposites enhanced bacteria adhesion ability. Particularly, the tribulus-like tetra-pods mesoporous nanoparticles show ~100% bacteria segregation and long-term inhibition over 90% after antibiotic loading.

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