Preparation and characterization of hollow magnetic composite nanoparticles for cisplatin delivery

Magnetic polymer microsphere is a kind of hybrid microsphere composed of polymer and inorganic magnetic particles. The materials have potential applications in biomedicine, catalysis, sewage treatment, etc. The objective of this paper was to develop a targeted anticancer drug delivery system based on carboxymethyl chitosan-coated Fe3O4/SiO2 hollow microspheres (HMS-CMCS) combining receptor-mediated targeting and magnetic targeting. The binding of chitosan to the surface of modified Fe3O4/SiO2 hollow microspheres could effectively prevent them from fusing with one another and undesirable payload release in regular storage or physiological environments. The synthesized HMS-CMCS microspheres could completely release the CDDP which was used as a model drug. The obtained HMS-CMCS had the hollow structure, and the walls of the HMS-CMCS had numerous micropores with a broad distribution of approximately 1 nm. The composite particles were characterized by TEM, FT-IR, and VSM. The results showed that the microspheres had an average size of 400 nm. The fabricated material is thus proposed as a biological material for drug delivery.