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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 May 28.
Published in final edited form as: Biomater Sci. 2019 May 28;7(6):2218–2240. doi: 10.1039/c9bm00238c

Table 2.

Silica materials synthesized from continuous laminar flow microreactors.

Microchannel type Material type Material size Material shape Porous type Bioapplication
Area
Ref by Year
Winding SiO2 164–321 nm Sphere Solid N/A 200439
Y junction SiO2 362–825 nm Sphere Solid GOD immobilization 200841
Coflow Fe2O3@SiO2 50 nm Sphere Solid N/A 200942
Y junction SiO2 200–400 nm Sphere Mesopore (~2 nm) N/A 201043
Slit interdigital SiO2 50–300 nm Sphere Solid N/A 201144
Cross junction-baffled mixer SiO2 46–250 nm Sphere Solid N/A 201145
Y junction SiO2 53–176 nm Sphere Solid N/A 201146
Slit interdigital SiO2@Au ~80 nm Sphere Solid N/A 201247
Winding-Spiral Fe2O3@SiO2@Pt 85 nm Sphere Solid IBA oxidation 201248
Y junction SiO2@Au/Fe2O3 ~200 nm Sphere Solid N/A 201349
Central collision SiO2@Au ~100 nm Sphere Solid N/A 201550
Y junction SiO2-TiO2 33 nm Sphere Solid N/A 201551
Slit interdigital and T junction SiO2 50–650 nm Sphere Hollow; mesopore (~3–4 nm) N/A 201552
T-shaped SiO2; Co3O4@ SiO2 ~150–650 nm Sphere Solid N/A 201753
Spiral SiO2 80×150 nm Ellipsoid Hollow; mesopore (~3 nm) Dox drug loading 201754
Flow-focusing SiO2 30–80 nm Sphere Hollow N/A 201755
Spiral SiO2; SiO2-QDs/Fe3O4 ~800 nm Sphere Hollow Cell imaging; RB adsorption; Dox drug loading 201756
Spiral SiO2; SiO2-Ag/Fe3O4 ~130×1500 nm Fiber Mesopore (~3 nm) Dox drug loading; 4-NP reduction 201857
Spiral SiO2; SiO2-FeCo ~2 μm Flower Solid CTC screening 201858
Spiral Fe2O3@SiO2 ~50–350 nm Sphere; cube; rod; belt Solid CTC screening 201859
Spiral SiO2 100 nm×15 μm Sheet Hollow; mesopore RB, BSA, and Dox adsorption 201960
Spiral Ag@SiO2 80×10 nm Triangle Solid Cellular internalization 201961
Spiral SiO2 1.2 μm Sphere Hollow; mesopore-macropore (2–100 nm) 4-NP reduction; BSA protein delivery 201962

Abbreviations: 4-NP: 4-nitrophenol; BSA: Bovine serum albumin; CTC: Circulating tumor cell; Dox: Doxorubicin; GOD: Glucose oxidase; IBA: 4-isopropyl benzaldehyde; N/A: Not Applicable; RB: Rhodamine B.