Nanoporous Silica-Based Protocells at Multiple Scales for Designs of Life and Nanomedicine
Various protocell models have been constructed de novo with the bottom-up approach.Here we describe a silica-based protocell composed of a nanoporous amorphous silica core encapsulated within a lipid bilayer built by self-assembly that provides for independent definition of cell interior and the surface membrane.In this review, we will first descri