Structured Biodegradable Polymeric Microparticles for Drug Delivery Produced Using Flow Focusing Glass Microfluidic Devices

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 41, 2015, Pages 23132-23143

  Ekanem, Ekanem E ^a   Nabavi, Seyed Ali ^b   Vladisavljević, Goran T ^a   Gu, Sai ^c  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

biodegradable microspheres; drug delivery systems; hemispherical particle; Janus particle; microfluidic flow focusing; nanoclay; poly(lactic acid); poly(lactic co glycolic acid)

Indexed keywords

ACETONE; DICHLOROMETHANE; DROP FORMATION; DROPS; FOCUSING; GLASS; LACTIC ACID; MICROFLUIDICS; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PHASE SEPARATION; POLYCAPROLACTONE; POLYMERIC GLASS; POLYVINYL ACETATES; POLYVINYL ALCOHOLS; POROUS MATERIALS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; VORTEX FLOW;

BIODEGRADABLE MICROSPHERES; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; JANUS PARTICLES; MICROFLUIDIC FLOW; NANO CLAYS; POLY LACTIC ACID; POLY LACTIC-CO-GLYCOLIC ACID;

BIODEGRADABLE POLYMERS;

EMULSION; LACTIC ACID; MICROSPHERE; NANOPARTICLE; PARACETAMOL; POLYGLYCOLIC ACID; POLYLACTIC ACID; POLYLACTIC ACID-POLYGLYCOLIC ACID COPOLYMER; POLYMER;

CHEMISTRY; DEVICES; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; DRUG RELEASE; EMULSION; FLOW KINETICS; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYSIS; PARTICLE SIZE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

ACETAMINOPHEN; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS; DRUG LIBERATION; EMULSIONS; LACTIC ACID; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MICROSPHERES; NANOPARTICLES; PARTICLE SIZE; POLYGLYCOLIC ACID; POLYMERS; RHEOLOGY; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 84945358302     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b06943     Document Type: Article

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