Porous Silicon and Its Applications
in Biology and Medicine

O. I. Ksenofontova^a, A. V. Vasin^a*, V. V. Egorov^a, A. V. Bobyl’^b, F. Yu. Soldatenkov^b**,
E. I. Terukov^{b, c}, V. P. Ulin^b, N. V. Ulin^b, and O. I. Kiselev^a

^a Ministry of Healthcare of the Russian Federation Research Institute of Influenza,
ul. Prof. Popova 15/17, St. Petersburg, 197376 Russia
^b Ioffe Physical Technical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Politekhnicheskaya ul. 26, St. Petersburg, 194021 Russia
^c St. Petersburg State Electrotechnical University, ul. Prof. Popova 5, St. Petersburg, 197376 Russia
*e-mail: vasin@influenza.spb.ru
**e-mail: f.soldatenkov@mail.ioffe.ru

Received March 6, 2013

Abstract—Development of safe container materials for targeted and controlled drug delivery to the right site
in the body is one of the most important aspects of modern biotechnologies. In the last decade, a significant
progress has been achieved in the study of nanostructured drug carriers, but the use of many nanomaterials is
fraught with the enormous risk because of their high toxicity. The real breakthrough became the use of porous
silicon, which has such important properties as biocompatibility, bioavailability, and biodegradability, which
makes it possible to use it for solving a wide range of biological and medical problems in the field of diagnosis
and treatment of diseases, implantology, and biomolecular screening.

DOI: 10.1134/S1063784214010083

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