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Near-infrared light-driven yolk@shell carbon@silica nanomotors for fuel-free triglyceride degradation

Show Author's Information Yi Xing,  Songsong Tang,  Xin Du( ),  Tailin Xu( ),  Xueji Zhang( )
Research Center for Bioengineering and Sensing Technology, Beijing Key Laboratory for Bioengineering and Sensing Technology, Department of Chemistry & Biological Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China
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yolk@spiky-shell, carbon@silica, nanomotors, self-thermophoresis, triglyceride degradations
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CarbonShells (structures)SilicaStructural design
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Xing Y, Tang S, Du X, et al. Near-infrared light-driven yolk@shell carbon@silica nanomotors for fuel-free triglyceride degradation. Nano Research, 2021, 14(3): 654-659. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-020-3092-2
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Yolk@shell mesoporous nanoparticles have received close attention due to their controllable structures and integrated functions. However, most yolk@shell nanosystems lack self-propulsion. Herein, yolk@spiky-shell structured carbon@silica nanomotors are fabricated with near-infrared (NIR) light self-thermophoretic propulsion as lipase nanocarriers for fuel-free triglyceride degradation. The light propulsion accelerates the accumulation of nanomotors on the droplet interface, and the efficient lipase loading further facilitates the rapid degradation of tributyrin droplets. By adjusting the yolk and spiky structure, the obtained semi-yolk@spiky-shell structured nanomotors exhibit the highest capacity of lipase (442 mg/g) and the highest light-driven diffusion coefficient (ca. 55% increase under 2 W/cm2 irradiation), thus improving the degradation efficiency of triglyceride (93.1% under NIR light vs. 66.7% without NIR light within 20 min). This work paves the way to rationally design yolk@shell structured nanomotors for diverse applications.


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Near-infrared light-driven yolk@shell carbon@silica nanomotors for fuel-free triglyceride degradation

Show Author's information Yi Xing, Songsong Tang, Xin Du( ), Tailin Xu( ), Xueji Zhang( )
Research Center for Bioengineering and Sensing Technology, Beijing Key Laboratory for Bioengineering and Sensing Technology, Department of Chemistry & Biological Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China

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Yolk@shell mesoporous nanoparticles have received close attention due to their controllable structures and integrated functions. However, most yolk@shell nanosystems lack self-propulsion. Herein, yolk@spiky-shell structured carbon@silica nanomotors are fabricated with near-infrared (NIR) light self-thermophoretic propulsion as lipase nanocarriers for fuel-free triglyceride degradation. The light propulsion accelerates the accumulation of nanomotors on the droplet interface, and the efficient lipase loading further facilitates the rapid degradation of tributyrin droplets. By adjusting the yolk and spiky structure, the obtained semi-yolk@spiky-shell structured nanomotors exhibit the highest capacity of lipase (442 mg/g) and the highest light-driven diffusion coefficient (ca. 55% increase under 2 W/cm2 irradiation), thus improving the degradation efficiency of triglyceride (93.1% under NIR light vs. 66.7% without NIR light within 20 min). This work paves the way to rationally design yolk@shell structured nanomotors for diverse applications.

Keywords: yolk@spiky-shell, carbon@silica, nanomotors, self-thermophoresis, triglyceride degradations

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Received: 15 July 2020
Revised: 04 September 2020
Accepted: 05 September 2020
Published: 01 March 2021
Issue date: March 2021

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Nos. FRF-TP-19-017B1, 2302015-06500017, FRF-BR-19-003B, and FRF-DB-20-14A), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 21501009 and 21804007), and Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission (No. z131102002813058).

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