Water-dispersible PVA-based dry microballoons with potential for biomedical applications

Materials Science and Engineering C

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 412-416

  Tzvetkov, George ^a   Paradossi, Gaio ^b   Tortora, Mariarosaria ^b   Fernandes, Paulo ^c,d   Fery, Andreas ^c   Graf Zeiler, Birgit ^e   Fink, Rainer H ^e  

^a PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF COLLOIDS AND INTERFACES   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Freeze drying; Microballoons; PVA; STXM

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE GAS; AQUEOUS DISPERSIONS; BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; CONFOCAL LASER SCANNING MICROSCOPY; FREEZE-DRYING PROCESS; MICRO SPECTROSCOPY; MICRO-PARTICLES; MICROBALLOONS; NEAR EDGE X-RAY ABSORPTION FINE STRUCTURE SPECTROSCOPIES; OXYGEN K-EDGE; POLYMERIC SHELL; POWDER MATERIAL; PVA-BASED; SEM; SHELF STORAGE; TARGETED DRUG DELIVERY; TELECHELICS; TEM; ULTRASOUND CONTRAST AGENT; WATER DISPERSIBLE; WATER SUSPENSIONS;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; DEWATERING; DRUG DELIVERY; GAS ABSORPTION; LOW TEMPERATURE DRYING; MICROOPTICS; OXYGEN; SCANNING; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY ABSORPTION FINE STRUCTURE SPECTROSCOPY;

CURING;

EID: 77649190761     PISSN: 09284931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.msec.2009.12.007     Document Type: Article

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