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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Oct 23.
Published in final edited form as: Adv Funct Mater. 2012 Oct 23;22(20):4225–4235. doi: 10.1002/adfm.201200869

Figure 4.

Figure 4

Degradation of pSi discoidal particles in fetal bovine serum. A) SEM images of 1000 nm × 400 nm pSi particles during the degradation process in fetal bovine serum at 37 °C. Time-points: 0, 2 and 8 h; scale bars are 500 nm. B) Degradation kinetics of pSi discoidal particles (600 nm × 400 nm and 1000 nm × 400 nm) as evaluated by ICP-AES. The degradation kinetic profile is expressed as a percentage of the total amount of pSi dissolved in medium.