Shukun Shen, Eric Kendall, Ann Oliver, Viviane Ngassam, Daodao Hu, and Atul N. Parikh Soft Matter 7, 1001-1005, 2011

We report a hybrid drug delivery system inspired by the functional compartmentalization of cell, isolating properties of cargo encapsulation, targeting, stability, biocompatibility, and permeability into discrete multilamellar organic-inorganic–organic design consisting of two differently functionalized lipid bilayers sandwiching a nanoporous silica layer.