A novel kind of magnetic core/mesoporous silica shell nanospheres with a uniform particle diameter of ca. 270 nm was synthesized. The inner magnetic core endues the whole nanoparticle with magnetic properties, while the outer mesoporous silica shell shows high enough surface area and pore volume. The synthesized material is expected to be applied to targeted drug delivery and multiphase separation. The storage and release of ibuprofen into and from the pore channels of the mesoporous silica shell, as a typical example, are demonstrated.

A novel kind of rattle‐type hollow magnetic mesoporous sphere (HMMS) with Fe3O4 particles encapsulated in the cores of mesoporous silica microspheres has been successfully fabricated by sol–gel reactions on hematite particles followed by cavity generation with hydrothermal treatment and H2 reduction. Such a structure has the merits of both enhanced drug‐loading capacity and a significant magnetization strength. The prepared HMMSs realize a relatively high storage capacity up to 302 mg g−1 when ibuprofen is used as a model drug, and the IBU–HMMS system has a sustained‐release property, which follows a Fick's law.

Though many efforts have been devoted to the adsorptive removal of hazardous materials of organophosphorus pesticides (OPs), it is still highly desirable to develop novel adsorbents with high adsorption capacities. In the current work, the removal of two representative OPs, glyphosate (GP) and glufosinate (GF), was investigated by the exceptionally stable Zr-based MOFs of UiO-67. The abundant Zr-OH groups, resulting from the missing-linker induced terminal hydroxyl groups and the inherent bridging ones in Zr-O clusters of UiO-67 particles, served as natural anchorages for efficient GP and GF capture in relation with their high affinity toward phosphoric groups in OPs. The correlation between the most significant parameters such as contact time, OPs concentration, adsorbent dose, pH, as well as ionic strength with the adsorption capacities was optimized, and the effects of these parameters on the removal efficiency of GP and GF from the polluted aqueous solution were investigated. The adsorption of GP on UiO-67 was faster than that of GF, and a pseudo-second-order rate equation effectively described the uptake kinetics. The Langmuir model exhibited a better fit to adsorption isotherm than the Freundlich model. Thanks to the strong affinity and adequate pore size, the adsorption capacities in UiO-67 approached as high as 3.18 mmol (537 mg) g(-1) for GP and 1.98 mmol (360 mg) g(-1) for GF, which were much higher than those of many other reported adsorbents. The excellent adsorption characteristics of the current adsorbents toward OPs were preserved in a wide pH window and high concentration of the background electrolytes. These prefigured the promising potentials of UiO-67 as novel adsorbent for the efficient removal of OPs from aqueous solution.

A simple seed-mediated growth route is developed to fabricate monodisperse, uniform superparamagnetic Fe(3)O(4) core/gold shell structured nanocomposites with tunable sizes and optical properties, in which gold seed formation and attachment onto the core surface via S-Au covalent bonding proceeds almost simultaneously in the one-pot synthesis. The as-prepared nanocomposite is demonstrated to have a great potential for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-guided, focused photothermal tumor therapy under near-IR laser radiation.

An unprecedented alendronate loading capacity was achieved in UiO-66 nanoparticles thanks to the inherent drug anchorages of Zr–O clusters therein.

Nanoporous and monodispersed Fe3O4 aggregated spheres with high surface area and oriented attachment structure have been successfully prepared by a polyol reduction process. The structure and morphology of the Fe3O4 particles were characterized by X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy, and N2 adsorption−desorption technique. The spherical aggregates are formed by the assembling among the Fe3O4 primary nanoparticles (5 nm), and the average size of the spherical particles is around 100 nm. The nanopores are less than 3 nm in the aggregated spheres. Besides, the magnetic properties of these nanoporous particles are also investigated and the magnetization saturation value is about 42.8 emu/g.

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