Volume 53, Issue 46 pp. 12629-12633
Communication

Towards Chemical Communication between Gated Nanoparticles

Cristina Giménez

Cristina Giménez

Centro de Reconocimiento Molecular y Tecnológico (IDM), Unidad Mixta Universidad Politécnica de Valencia-Universidad de Valencia (Spain) http://idm.webs.upv.es/

Departamento de Química, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Camino de Vera s/n, 46022 Valencia (Spain)

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Dr. Estela Climent

Dr. Estela Climent

Fachbereich 1.9 Sensormaterialien, BAM Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung Richard-Willstätter-Strasse 11, 12489 Berlin (Germany)

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Dr. Elena Aznar

Dr. Elena Aznar

Centro de Reconocimiento Molecular y Tecnológico (IDM), Unidad Mixta Universidad Politécnica de Valencia-Universidad de Valencia (Spain) http://idm.webs.upv.es/

Departamento de Química, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Camino de Vera s/n, 46022 Valencia (Spain)

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Prof. Ramón Martínez-Máñez

Corresponding Author

Prof. Ramón Martínez-Máñez

Centro de Reconocimiento Molecular y Tecnológico (IDM), Unidad Mixta Universidad Politécnica de Valencia-Universidad de Valencia (Spain) http://idm.webs.upv.es/

Departamento de Química, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Camino de Vera s/n, 46022 Valencia (Spain)

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Ramón Martínez-Máñez, Centro de Reconocimiento Molecular y Tecnológico (IDM), Unidad Mixta Universidad Politécnica de Valencia-Universidad de Valencia (Spain) http://idm.webs.upv.es/

Knut Rurack, Fachbereich 1.9 Sensormaterialien, BAM Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung Richard-Willstätter-Strasse 11, 12489 Berlin (Germany)

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Dr. Félix Sancenón

Dr. Félix Sancenón

Centro de Reconocimiento Molecular y Tecnológico (IDM), Unidad Mixta Universidad Politécnica de Valencia-Universidad de Valencia (Spain) http://idm.webs.upv.es/

Departamento de Química, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Camino de Vera s/n, 46022 Valencia (Spain)

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Dr. M. Dolores Marcos

Dr. M. Dolores Marcos

Centro de Reconocimiento Molecular y Tecnológico (IDM), Unidad Mixta Universidad Politécnica de Valencia-Universidad de Valencia (Spain) http://idm.webs.upv.es/

Departamento de Química, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Camino de Vera s/n, 46022 Valencia (Spain)

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Prof. Pedro Amorós

Prof. Pedro Amorós

Instituto de Ciencia de los Materiales (ICMUV), Universidad de Valencia, P.O. Box 22085, 46071 Valencia (Spain)

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Dr. Knut Rurack

Corresponding Author

Dr. Knut Rurack

Fachbereich 1.9 Sensormaterialien, BAM Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung Richard-Willstätter-Strasse 11, 12489 Berlin (Germany)

Ramón Martínez-Máñez, Centro de Reconocimiento Molecular y Tecnológico (IDM), Unidad Mixta Universidad Politécnica de Valencia-Universidad de Valencia (Spain) http://idm.webs.upv.es/

Knut Rurack, Fachbereich 1.9 Sensormaterialien, BAM Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung Richard-Willstätter-Strasse 11, 12489 Berlin (Germany)

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First published: 04 September 2014
Citations: 75

Financial support from the Spanish government (project MAT2012-38429-C04-01) and the Generalitat Valencia (project PROMETEO/2009/016) is gratefully acknowledged. E.A. thanks the Universitat Politècnica de València (project SP20120795) for support. C.G. is grateful to the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation for a grant. E.C. is grateful to the Adolf-Martens-Fonds for a fellowship. We are indebted to M. Dinter (LTB Lasertechnik Berlin GmbH) for assistance with the graphics.

Graphical Abstract

Talk to me! A hierarchically organized community of three different gated nanoparticles communicates with each other through the interchange of chemical messengers (see schematic representation).

Abstract

The design of comparatively simple and modularly configurable artificial systems able to communicate through the exchange of chemical messengers is, to the best of our knowledge, an unexplored field. As a proof-of-concept, we present here a family of nanoparticles that have been designed to communicate with one another in a hierarchical manner. The concept involves the use of capped mesoporous silica supports in which the messenger delivered by a first type of gated nanoparticle is used to open a second type of nanoparticle, which delivers another messenger that opens a third group of gated nanoobjects. We believe that the conceptual idea that nanodevices can be designed to communicate with one another may result in novel applications and will boost further advances towards cooperative systems with complex behavior as a result of the communication between simple abiotic individual components.

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