Towards Chemical Communication between Gated Nanoparticles

The design of comparatively simple and modularly configurable artificial systems able to communicate through the exchange of chemical messengers is, to the best of our knowledge, an unexplored field. As a proof-of-concept, we present here a family of nanoparticles that have been designed to communicate with one another in a hierarchical manner. The concept involves the use of capped mesoporous silica supports in which the messenger delivered by a first type of gated nanoparticle is used to open a second type of nanoparticle, which delivers another messenger that opens a third group of gated nanoobjects.We believe that the conceptual idea that nanodevices can be designed to communicate with one another may result in novel applications and will boost further advances towards cooperative systems with complex behavior as a result of the communication between simple abiotic individual components.Financial support from the Spanish government (project MAT2012-38429-C04-01) and the Generalitat Valencia (project PROMETEO/2009/016) is gratefully acknowledged. E.A. thanks the Universitat Politecnica de Valencia (project SP20120795) for support. C.G. is grateful to the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation for a grant. E.C. is grateful to the Adolf-Martens-Fonds for a fellowship. We are indebted to M. 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