1 Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Kumamoto University, 2-39-1 Kurokami, Chuo-ku, Kumamoto 860-8555, Japan. hayami@sci.kumamoto-u.ac.jp.
An antimalarial drug artesunate (ATS) was encapsulated in both functionalized MCM-41 and ordinary MCM-41 with an excellent loading capacity and sustained release behavior for possible biomedical applications.