Roberto D’Amato

Nov 2, 2023 | mdpi.com | Roberto D’Amato |Giulia Quaglia |Roberta Selvaggi |Fabio Marmottini

1. IntroductionSilica (SiO2) nanoparticles have raised a lot of interest in recent decades, and they have been deeply characterised and studied. Indeed, silica nanostructures have found applications in many fields such as microelectronics [1,2], drug delivery [3,4], biological labelling [5], and photocatalysis [6,7,8,9,10].