Review: Silica nanoparticles in transmucosal drug delivery

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Our latest review in drug delivery is about silica nanoparticles, published this week in the open access journal, Pharmaceutics.

This is a collaborative paper with Professor Vitaliy Khutoryanskiy (University of Reading, UK), Dr Twana M. Ways (University of Sulaimani, Iraq), and our own Dr Wing Man Lau (Newcastle University, UK). In the paper, we examine the applications of silica nanoparticles in transmucosal drug delivery. We discuss different types of silica nanoparticles and their methods of preparation, including surface functionalisation strategies to facilitate interactions with mucosal surfaces.

The paper is published under the very permissive Creative Commons Attribution Licence (CC BY 4.0), which allows you to freely share and adapt the work as long as the source is appropriately cited. Please cite this work as:

M. Ways TM, Ng KW, Lau WM, Khutoryanskiy VV (2020) Silica nanoparticles in transmucosal drug delivery. Pharmaceutics 12(8):751. doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics12080751