Elucidating the effect of different amino-functionalized spherical mesoporous silica characteristics on ribonucleic acid selectivity and adsorption capacity

Dendritic Fibrous Nanosilica (DFNS) for RNA Extraction from Cells

“…3,4 We hypothesized that due to nano-size particles, high surface area, unique fibrous morphology and wide pore size distribution, DFNS would be able to extract and isolate the RNA even from dilute samples, and hence will be able to produce high purity RNA with better yield. Although the use of silica column technique is well-known for RNA extraction, [8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25] use of fibrous nano-silica and effect of silica morphology on RNA extraction has not been studied before.…”