A facile route to hollow nanospheres of mesoporous silica with tunable size

Chem Commun (Camb). 2008 Jun 21:(23):2629-31. doi: 10.1039/b804594a. Epub 2008 May 1.

Abstract

Hollow mesoporous silica nanospheres (HMSNs) with tunable sizes of both sphere diameter (around 100 nm) and shell thickness have been successfully fabricated.