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Poly-l-lysine Functionalized Large Pore Cubic Mesostructured Silica Nanoparticles as Biocompatible Carriers for Gene Delivery Sandy B. Hartono†, Wenyi Gu†, Freddy Kleitz§, Jian Liu†, Lizhong He*, Anton P. J. Middelberg, Chengzhong Yu†*, Gao Qing (Max) Lu†, and Shi Zhang Qiao†‡* † ARC Centre of Excellence for Functional Nanomaterials, Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, The University of Queensland, QLD 4072, Australia ‡ School of Chemical Engineering, The University of Adelaide, SA5005, Australia § Department of Chemistry and Centre de Recherche sur les Matériaux Avancés (CERMA), Université Laval, Quebec City, G1 V 0A6, QC, Canada Centre for Biomolecular Engineering, Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, The University of Queensland, QLD 4072, Australia