Coaxial electrospray of microparticles and nanoparticles for biomedical applications

Expert Review of Medical Devices

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 595-612

  Zhang, Leilei ^a,b   Huang, Jiwei ^a,b   Si, Ting ^c   Xu, Ronald X ^a,b  

^a Ohio State University   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

coaxial electrospray; drug delivery; electrohydrodynamic atomization; instability analysis; microparticle; multimodal imaging; nanoparticle; scaling law; Taylor cone

Indexed keywords

ELECTROHYDRODYNAMIC ATOMIZATION; ELECTROSPRAYS; INSTABILITY ANALYSIS; MICRO PARTICLES; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; TAYLOR CONE;

DRUG DELIVERY; ELECTROHYDRODYNAMICS; ENCAPSULATION; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; SCALING LAWS;

NANOPARTICLES;

NANOPARTICLE;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DIELECTRIC CONSTANT; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROSPRAY; FLOW RATE; MEMBRANE MICROPARTICLE; MICROENCAPSULATION; NANOENCAPSULATION; NEBULIZATION; PROCESS DESIGN; REVIEW; VISCOSITY;

BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; MATERIALS TESTING; NANOPARTICLES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE;

EID: 84870588321     PISSN: 17434440     EISSN: 17452422     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/erd.12.58     Document Type: Review

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