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Adsorption of Cisplatin Molecules in Nanoporous Inorganic Materials as Drug Delivery Vehicles

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  • Mansoor H. Alshehri

    (Department of Mathematics, College of Science, King Saud University, P.O. Box 2455, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia)

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The use of nanoparticles as anticancer cargo systems for drug delivery is a promising modality, as they avoid the known toxicity of anticancer drugs on healthy cells by the delivery of multiple drugs to the target cells. Here, the adsorption behavior of cisplatin drug molecules in two different inorganic materials, silica and metallic gold, is investigated mathematically. The 6–12 Lennard-Jones potential, together with the continuum approximation, is adapted to calculate the molecular interatomic energies between molecules. For each material, the relation between the pore radius ℓ and the minimum energy is determined, and the results indicate that the minimum energy occurs when the radii are ℓ = 5.3 and ℓ = 4.7 Å for the silica and gold nanopores, respectively. The method is promising for applications in the design of novel nanocapsules for future targeted drug and gene delivery.

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  • Mansoor H. Alshehri, 2022. "Adsorption of Cisplatin Molecules in Nanoporous Inorganic Materials as Drug Delivery Vehicles," Mathematics, MDPI, vol. 10(7), pages 1-9, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jmathe:v:10:y:2022:i:7:p:1018-:d:776792
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    1. Mansoor H. Alshehri, 2021. "Continuum Modelling for Encapsulation of Anticancer Drugs inside Nanotubes," Mathematics, MDPI, vol. 9(19), pages 1-10, October.
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