Nanoarchitectonics to entrap living cells in silica-based systems: encapsulations with yolk–shell and sepiolite nanomaterials

• Celia Martín-Morales,
• Jorge Fernández-Méndez,
• Pilar Aranda and
• Eduardo Ruiz-Hitzky

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2023, 14, 522–534, doi:10.3762/bjnano.14.43

• as shell components [22][23][24][25]. All these biotechnological and multidisciplinary approaches are concerned with cell surface engineering for efficient encapsulation using divers nanomaterials. However, a recent review article published by Homburg and Patel [26] showed the necessity to solve

Nanoarchitectonics: bottom-up creation of functional materials and systems

• Katsuhiko Ariga

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2020, 11, 450–452, doi:10.3762/bjnano.11.36

• hydroxide/sepiolite hybrids [31], and cell surface engineering with halloysite-doped silica cell imprints for shape recognition of human cells [32]. In another example, magnetic nanoparticles were attached to microbubble shells for enhanced biomedical imaging [33]. In a final example, the detection of the

Nanoarchitectonics meets cell surface engineering: shape recognition of human cells by halloysite-doped silica cell imprints

• Elvira Rozhina,
• Ilnur Ishmukhametov,
• Svetlana Batasheva,
• Farida Akhatova and
• Rawil Fakhrullin

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 1818–1825, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.176

• Elvira Rozhina Ilnur Ishmukhametov Svetlana Batasheva Farida Akhatova Rawil Fakhrullin Institute of Fundamental Medicine and Biology, Kazan Federal University, Kreml uramı 18, Kazan 420008, Republic of Tatarstan, Russian Federation 10.3762/bjnano.10.176 Abstract Cell surface engineering, as a

• that methodology reported here will find applications in biomedical and clinical research. Keywords: cell surface engineering; cell-recognising imprints; halloysite nanotubes; nanoarchtectonics; Introduction Nanoarchitectonics has recently emerged as a “post-nanotechnology era” paradigm in the

• eukaryotic cells [3]. In particular, nanostructured composite shells (both hard and soft) deposited onto live cells have been shown to render the cells with novel mechanic and chemical functionalities [4][5][6]. In line with the concepts of nanoarchitectonics, cell surface engineering relies on the self