Fig. 3
From: Surface-kinetics mediated mesoporous multipods for enhanced bacterial adhesion and inhibition
The growth of PMO cubes on nanoparticles with different functional groups. a–c The structure of the surface functional groups on Fe3O4@SiO2@RF-A, Fe3O4@SiO2@RF, and Fe3O4@SiO2@RF-N nanoparticles and the corresponding TEM images with different magnifications of the obtained multipods nanocomposites: a The growth of PMO cubes on core@shell Fe3O4@SiO2@RF-A nanoparticles with phenolic amino surface functional groups and TEM images with different magnifications of the obtained dual-pods Fe3O4@SiO2@RF-A&PMOs nanocomposites; b The growth of PMO cubes on the core@shell Fe3O4@SiO2@RF nanoparticles with phenolic hydroxyl surface functional groups and the TEM images with different magnifications of the obtained tetra-pods Fe3O4@SiO2@RF&PMOs nanocomposites; c The growth of PMO cubes on the surface of Fe3O4@SiO2@RF-N nanoparticles with phenolic nitro functional groups and TEM images with different magnifications of the obtained multipods Fe3O4@SiO2@RF-A&PMOs nanocomposites. Insets are the 3D structural model of the respective nanocomposites. Scale bars represent 500 nm for images in the middle line and 100 nm for images in the right line
