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Yadav AS, Galogahi FM, Vashi A, Tran DT, Kijanka GS, Cha H, Sreejith KR, Nguyen NT. Synthesis and active manipulation of magnetic liquid beads. Biomed Microdevices 2024; 26:24. [PMID: 38709370 PMCID: PMC11074228 DOI: 10.1007/s10544-024-00708-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 04/19/2024] [Indexed: 05/07/2024]
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We report the fabrication and characterisation of magnetic liquid beads with a solid magnetic shell and liquid core using microfluidic techniques. The liquid beads consist of a fluorinated oil core and a polymer shell with magnetite particles. The beads are generated in a flow-focusing polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) device and cured by photo polymerisation. We investigated the response of the liquid beads to an external magnetic field by characterising their motion towards a permanent magnet. Magnetic sorting of liquid beads in a channel was achieved with 90% efficiency. The results show that the liquid beads can be controlled magnetically and have potential applications in digital microfluidics including nucleic acid amplification, drug delivery, cell culture, sensing, and tissue engineering. The present paper also discusses the magnetophoretic behaviour of the liquid bead by varying its mass and magnetite concentration in the shell. We also demonstrated the two-dimensional self-assembly of magnetic liquid beads for potential use in digital polymerase chain reaction and digital loop mediated isothermal amplification.
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- Ajeet Singh Yadav
- Queensland Micro- and Nanotechnology Centre, Griffith University, 170 Kessels Road, Nathan, QLD, 4111, Australia
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- Queensland Micro- and Nanotechnology Centre, Griffith University, 170 Kessels Road, Nathan, QLD, 4111, Australia
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- Queensland Micro- and Nanotechnology Centre, Griffith University, 170 Kessels Road, Nathan, QLD, 4111, Australia
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- Queensland Micro- and Nanotechnology Centre, Griffith University, 170 Kessels Road, Nathan, QLD, 4111, Australia
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- Queensland Micro- and Nanotechnology Centre, Griffith University, 170 Kessels Road, Nathan, QLD, 4111, Australia
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- Queensland Micro- and Nanotechnology Centre, Griffith University, 170 Kessels Road, Nathan, QLD, 4111, Australia
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- Queensland Micro- and Nanotechnology Centre, Griffith University, 170 Kessels Road, Nathan, QLD, 4111, Australia
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- Queensland Micro- and Nanotechnology Centre, Griffith University, 170 Kessels Road, Nathan, QLD, 4111, Australia.
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Sharma R, Ungar D, Dyson E, Rimmer S, Chechik V. Functional magnetic nanoparticles for protein delivery applications: understanding protein-nanoparticle interactions. NANOSCALE 2024; 16:2466-2477. [PMID: 38205681 DOI: 10.1039/d3nr04544g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2024]
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Iron oxide nanoparticles (IONPs) surface functionalised with thermo-responsive polymers can encapsulate therapeutic proteins and release them upon heating with an alternating magnetic field above the lower critical solution temperature (LCST). In order to make this delivery system clinically-relevant, we prepared IONPs coated with poly-N-isopropylmethacrylamide (PNIPMAM), a polymer with LCST above human body temperature. The optimal polymer chain length and nanoparticle size to achieve LCST of ca. 45 °C were 19 kDa PNIPMAM and 16 nm IONPs. The PNIPMAM-coated IONPs could encapsulate a range of proteins which were released upon heating above LCST in the presence of a competitor protein or serum. A small amount of encapsulated protein leakage was observed below LCST. The efficiency of protein encapsulation and release was correlated with molecular weight and glycosylation state of the proteins. Magnetic heating resulted in a faster protein release as compared to conventional heating without significant temperature increase of the bulk solution.
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- Rajat Sharma
- Department of Chemistry, University of York, UK.
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- Polymer and Biomaterials Chemistry Laboratories, University of Bradford, UK
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- Polymer and Biomaterials Chemistry Laboratories, University of Bradford, UK
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Razmimanesh F, Sodeifian G. Evaluation of a temperature-responsive magnetotocosome as a magnetic targeting drug delivery system for sorafenib tosylate anticancer drug. Heliyon 2023; 9:e21794. [PMID: 38027677 PMCID: PMC10658271 DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e21794] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/26/2022] [Revised: 10/15/2023] [Accepted: 10/28/2023] [Indexed: 12/01/2023] Open
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In this investigation, a polymeric fusion of chitosan (CS) and thermosensitive poly (N-isopropyl acrylamide) - PNIPAAm - encapsulated a magnetotocosome, biocompatible nanocarrier. This encapsulation strategy demonstrated improved drug entrapment efficiency, achieving up to 98.8 %. Additionally, it exhibited extended stability, optimal particle dimensions, and the potential for industrial scaling, thus facilitating controlled drug delivery of sorafenib tosylate to cancerous tissue. Reversible Addition-Fragmentation Chain Transfer (RAFT) techniques were employed to synthesize PNIPAAm. The effects of polymer molecular weight and polydispersity index on the lower critical solution temperature (LCST) were evaluated. The resulting polymeric amalgamation, involving the thermosensitive PNIPAAm synthesized using RAFT techniques and CS that coated the magnetotocosome (CS-Raft PNIPAAm-magnetotocosome) with an LCST approximately at 45 °C, holds the potential to enhance drug bioavailability and enable applications in hyperthermia treatment, controlled release, and targeted drug delivery.
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- Fariba Razmimanesh
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Kashan, 87317-53153, Kashan, Iran
- Laboratory of Biotechnology and Nanotechnology, University of Kashan, 87317-53153, Kashan, Iran
- Biotechnology Centre, Faculty of Engineering, University of Kashan, 87317-53153, Kashan, Iran
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Kashan, 87317-53153, Kashan, Iran
- Laboratory of Biotechnology and Nanotechnology, University of Kashan, 87317-53153, Kashan, Iran
- Biotechnology Centre, Faculty of Engineering, University of Kashan, 87317-53153, Kashan, Iran
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Xu Y, Gu F, Hu S, Wu Y, Wu C, Deng Y, Gu B, Chen Z, Yang Y. A cell wall-targeted organic-inorganic hybrid nano-catcher for ultrafast capture and SERS detection of invasive fungi. Biosens Bioelectron 2023; 228:115173. [PMID: 36878067 DOI: 10.1016/j.bios.2023.115173] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/08/2022] [Revised: 07/28/2022] [Accepted: 02/18/2023] [Indexed: 02/25/2023]
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Due to the extended culture period and various inconveniences in vitro culture, the detection of invasive fungi is rather difficult, leading to high mortality rates of the diseases caused by them. It is, however, crucial for clinical therapy and lowering patient mortality to quickly identify invasive fungus from clinical specimens. A promising non-destructive method for finding fungi is surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS), however, its substrate has a low level of selectivity. Clinical sample components can obstruct the target fungi's SERS signal on account of their complexity. Herein, an MNP@PNIPAMAA hybrid organic-inorganic nano-catcher was created by using ultrasonic-initiated polymerization. The caspofungin (CAS), a fungus cell wall-targeting drug, is used in this study. We investigated MNP@PNIPAMAA-CAS as a technique to rapidly extract fungus from complex samples under 3 s. SERS could subsequently be used to instantly identify the fungi that were successfully isolated with an efficacy rate of about 75%. The entire process took just 10 min. This method is an important breakthrough that might be advantageous in terms of the rapid detection of invasive fungi.
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- Yu Xu
- Bioinformatics Center of AMMS, Beijing Key Laboratory of New Molecular Diagnosis Technologies for Infectious Diseases, Beijing, 100850, China; College of Intelligent Science and Control Engineering, Jinling Institute of Technology, Nanjing, 211169, China
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine, Xuzhou Central Hospital, Xuzhou, 221000, China
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine, Xuzhou Tumor Hospital, Xuzhou, 221005, China
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- School of Medical Imaging, Xuzhou Medical University, Xuzhou, 221004, China
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- School of Medical Imaging, Xuzhou Medical University, Xuzhou, 221004, China
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- College of Intelligent Science and Control Engineering, Jinling Institute of Technology, Nanjing, 211169, China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory Medicine, Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital (Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences), Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, 510000, China.
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- School of Material Science and Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou, 221116, China.
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- Bioinformatics Center of AMMS, Beijing Key Laboratory of New Molecular Diagnosis Technologies for Infectious Diseases, Beijing, 100850, China.
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Moradi S, Najjar R, Hamishehkar H, Lotfi A. Triple-responsive drug nanocarrier: Magnetic core-shell nanoparticles of Fe3O4@poly(N-isopropylacrylamide)-grafted-chitosan, synthesis and in vitro cytotoxicity evaluation against human lung and breast cancer cells. J Drug Deliv Sci Technol 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jddst.2022.103426] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Hemp globulin forms colloidal nanocomplexes with sodium caseinate during pH-cycling. Food Res Int 2021; 150:110810. [PMID: 34863500 DOI: 10.1016/j.foodres.2021.110810] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/28/2020] [Revised: 10/08/2021] [Accepted: 11/08/2021] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Seed from industrial hemp (Cannabis sativa L.) contains around 25% protein (mainly globulins) which is easily digested, but the low solubility of hemp globulins (HG) limits their application in many food systems. In this study, the solubility of HG was improved by blending HG with sodium caseinate (SC) and treating with a pH-cycling process. The pH-cycling involved adjusting the pH to 12 and reacting for 1 hr, followed by neutralisation to pH 7. Nanoparticles composed of HG and SC (Z-average diameter ≈ 130 nm) were formed after the pH-cycling, and the solubility of HG increased to > 80% when there was more than 1% of SC for 1% of HG. These HG|SC nanoparticles were monodisperse (PDI < 0.17) and ζ-potential was ≈ -17 mV. Hydrogen bonding is the main forces that assembles HG|SC nanoparticles because the nanoparticles dissociated by heat treatment (up to 60 °C) or urea, which is an effective hydrogen bond breaker. HG|SC nanoparticles will aggregate irreversibly above 60 °C, possibly due to thiol-disulphide exchange. The nanoparticles were heat-stable as the Z-average diameter was only 229 nm after heating (90 °C, 30 min). N-ethylmaleimide blocked free thiol groups on HG and resulted in less disulphide-linked HG aggregation after pH- cycling, which in turn lead to smaller HG|SC nanoparticles and a bimodal particle size distribution, indicating the importance of disulphide bond for the formation of monodisperse HG|SC nanoparticles. The soluble and heat-stable HG|SC nanoparticles could be used to increase the hemp protein content in beverages and emulsions.
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Designing magnetic nanoparticles for in vivo applications and understanding their fate inside human body. Coord Chem Rev 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ccr.2021.214082] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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López-Cisneros M, Smolentseva E, Acosta B, Simakov A. Synthesis by spray pyrolysis of gold nano species confined in iron oxide nanospheres effective in the reduction of 4-nitrophenol to 4-aminophenol. NANOTECHNOLOGY 2021; 32:425602. [PMID: 34252889 DOI: 10.1088/1361-6528/ac137c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/27/2021] [Accepted: 07/12/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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The highly effective Au/Fe2O3-@Au/Fe2O3nanoreactors for the 4-nitrophenol (4-NP) reduction are successfully obtained by one-pot synthesis using the spray pyrolysis (SP) technique. The Au/Fe2O3-@Au/Fe2O3nanoreactors manifest superior catalytic activity in the reduction of 4-NP in the presence of sodium borohydride (NaBH4) compared to gold-iron oxide nanoreactors prepared via a colloidal approach. The negative effect of the reaction product accumulation, the 4-aminophenol (4-AP), on the catalytic reduction of 4-NP over Au/Fe2O3-@Au/Fe2O3is examined by a direct pre-injection of 4-AP to the reaction media. To the best of our knowledge, it is the first experimental evidence of gold active sites blocking by 4-AP. All obtained samples are characterized by the yolk-shell spherical hollow structure mainly consisted of two embedded hollow nanospheres. The reduction of iron oxide precursor concentration diminishes the diameter of final iron oxide nanospheres. According to STEM-EDS analysis and STEM, Au nano species are uniformly dispersed on both iron oxide nanospheres. The SP technique presently used to synthesize Au/Fe2O3-@Au/Fe2O3nanoreactors manifests high potential for the one-pot fabrication of a large variety of nanoreactors with various active materials applied as heterogeneous catalysts in numerous catalytic processes.
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- Martin López-Cisneros
- Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de Materiales, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Km. 107 Carretera Tijuana a Ensenada, C.P. 22860, Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico
- Departamento De Ciencias Biomédicas, Universidad Autónoma de Occidente, Avenida Universidad S/N, Flamingos, C.P. 81048, Guasave, Sinaloa, Mexico
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- Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Centro de Nanociencias y Nanotecnología, Km. 107 Carretera Tijuana a Ensenada, C.P. 22860, Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico
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- Cátedras CONACYT, Coordinación para la Innovación y la Aplicación de la Ciencia y la Tecnología, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, Álvaro Obregón 64, San Luis Potosí, S.L.P. 78000, Mexico
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- Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Centro de Nanociencias y Nanotecnología, Km. 107 Carretera Tijuana a Ensenada, C.P. 22860, Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico
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Non-magnetic shell coating of magnetic nanoparticles as key factor of toxicity for cancer cells in a low frequency alternating magnetic field. Colloids Surf B Biointerfaces 2021; 206:111931. [PMID: 34171621 DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfb.2021.111931] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/23/2021] [Revised: 06/14/2021] [Accepted: 06/16/2021] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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This work is devoted to studying the effects of non-magnetic shell coating on nanoparticles in a low frequency alternating magnetic field (LF AMF) on tumor cells in vitro. Two types of iron oxide nanoparticles with the same magnetic core with and without silica shells were synthesized. Nanoparticles with silica shells significantly decreased the viability of PC3 cancer cells in a low frequency alternating magnetic field according to the cytotoxicity test, unlike uncoated nanoparticles. We showed that cell death results from the intracellular membrane integrity failure, and the calcium ions concentration increase with the subsequent necrosis. Transmission electron microscopy images showed that the uncoated silica nanoparticles are primarily found in an aggregated form in cells. We believe that uncoated nanoparticles lose their colloidal stability in an acidic endosomal environment after internalization into the cell due to surface etching and the formation of aggregates. As a result, they encounter high endosomal macromolecular viscosity and become unable to rotate efficiently. We assume that effective rotation of nanoparticles causes cell death. In turn, silica shell coating increases nanoparticles stability, preventing aggregation in endosomes. Thus, we propose that the colloidal stability of magnetic nanoparticles inside cells is one of the key factors for effective magneto-mechanical actuation.
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Johnson L, Gray DM, Niezabitowska E, McDonald TO. Multi-stimuli-responsive aggregation of nanoparticles driven by the manipulation of colloidal stability. NANOSCALE 2021; 13:7879-7896. [PMID: 33881098 DOI: 10.1039/d1nr01190a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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The capacity to control the dispersed or aggregated state of colloidal particles is particularly attractive for facilitating a diverse range of smart applications. For this reason, stimuli-responsive nanoparticles have garnered much attention in recent years. Colloidal systems that exhibit multi-stimuli-responsive behaviour are particularly interesting materials due to the greater spatial and temporal control they display in terms of dispersion/aggregation status; such behaviour can be exploited for implant formation, easy separation of a previously dispersed material or for the blocking of unwanted pores. This review will provide an overview of the recent publications regarding multi-stimuli-responsive microgels and hybrid core-shell nanoparticles. These polymer-based nanoparticles are highly sensitive to environmental conditions and can form aggregated clusters due to a loss of colloidal stability, triggered by temperature, pH and ionic strength stimuli. We aim to provide the reader with a discussion of the recent developments in this area, as well as an understanding of the fundamental concepts which underpin the responsive behaviour, and an exploration of their applications.
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- Luke Johnson
- Department of Chemistry, University of Liverpool, Crown Street, Liverpool, UK.
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Liverpool, Crown Street, Liverpool, UK.
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Liverpool, Crown Street, Liverpool, UK.
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Liverpool, Crown Street, Liverpool, UK.
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Fu S, Cai Z, Ai H. Stimulus-Responsive Nanoparticle Magnetic Resonance Imaging Contrast Agents: Design Considerations and Applications. Adv Healthc Mater 2021; 10:e2001091. [PMID: 32875751 DOI: 10.1002/adhm.202001091] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2020] [Revised: 08/04/2020] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has been widely used for disease diagnosis because it can noninvasively obtain anatomical details of various diseases through accurate contrast between soft tissues. Over one-third of MRI examinations are performed with the assistance of contrast agents. Traditional contrast agents typically display an unchanging signal, thus exhibiting relatively low sensitivity and poor specificity. Currently, advances in stimulus-responsive contrast agents which can alter the relaxation signal in response to a specific change in their surrounding environment provide new opportunities to overcome such limitation. The signal changes based on stimulus also reflects the physiological and pathological conditions of the site of interests. In this review, how to design stimulus-responsive nanoparticle MRI contrast agents from the perspective of theory and surface design is comprehensively discussed. Key structural features including size, clusters, shell features, and surface properties are used for tuning the T1 and T2 relaxation properties. The reversible or non-reversible signal changes highlight the contrast agents have undergone structural changes based on certain stimulus, as an indication for disease diagnosis or therapeutic efficacy.
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- Shengxiang Fu
- National Engineering Research Center for Biomaterials Sichuan University Chengdu 610065 China
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- National Engineering Research Center for Biomaterials Sichuan University Chengdu 610065 China
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- National Engineering Research Center for Biomaterials Sichuan University Chengdu 610065 China
- Department of Radiology West China Hospital Sichuan University Chengdu 610041 China
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Roma E, Corsi P, Willinger M, Leitner NS, Zirbs R, Reimhult E, Capone B, Gasperi T. Theoretical and Experimental Design of Heavy Metal-Mopping Magnetic Nanoparticles. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2021; 13:1386-1397. [PMID: 33389993 PMCID: PMC8021223 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.0c17759] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/03/2020] [Accepted: 12/18/2020] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Herein, we show a comprehensive experimental, theoretical, and computational study aimed at designing macromolecules able to adsorb a cargo at the nanoscale. Specifically, we focus on the adsorption properties of star diblock copolymers, i.e., macromolecules made by a number f of H-T diblock copolymer arms tethered on a central core; the H monomeric heads, which are closer to the tethering point, are attractive toward a specific target, while the T monomeric tails are neutral to the cargo. Experimentally, we exploited the adaptability of poly(2-oxazoline)s (POxs) to realize block copolymer-coated nanoparticles with a proper functionalization able to interact with heavy metals and show or exhibit a thermoresponsive behavior in aqueous solution. We here present the synthesis and analysis of the properties of a high molecular mass block copolymer featured by (i) a polar side chain, capable of exploiting electrostatic and hydrophilic interaction with a predetermined cargo, and (ii) a thermoresponsive scaffold, able to change the interaction with the media by tuning the temperature. Afterward, the obtained polymers were grafted onto iron oxide nanoparticles and the thermoresponsive properties were investigated. Through isothermal titration calorimetry, we then analyzed the adsorption properties of the synthesized superparamagnetic nanoparticles for heavy metal ions in aqueous solution. Additionally, we use a combination of scaling theories and simulations to link equilibrium properties of the system to a prediction of the loading properties as a function of size ratio and effective interactions between the considered species. The comparison between experimental results on adsorption and theoretical prediction validates the whole design process.
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- Elia Roma
- Dipartimento
di Scienze, Universitá degli Studi
Roma Tre, Via della Vasca Navale 84, 00146 Roma, Italy
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- Dipartimento
di Scienze, Universitá degli Studi
Roma Tre, Via della Vasca Navale 84, 00146 Roma, Italy
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- Department
of Material Sciences and Process Engineering, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Peter-Jordan-Strasse 82, A-1190 Vienna, Austria
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- Department
of Material Sciences and Process Engineering, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Peter-Jordan-Strasse 82, A-1190 Vienna, Austria
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- Department
of Material Sciences and Process Engineering, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Peter-Jordan-Strasse 82, A-1190 Vienna, Austria
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- Department
of Material Sciences and Process Engineering, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Peter-Jordan-Strasse 82, A-1190 Vienna, Austria
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- Dipartimento
di Scienze, Universitá degli Studi
Roma Tre, Via della Vasca Navale 84, 00146 Roma, Italy
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- Dipartimento
di Scienze, Universitá degli Studi
Roma Tre, Via della Vasca Navale 84, 00146 Roma, Italy
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Magnetic Nanoparticle-Based Drug Delivery Approaches for Preventing and Treating Biofilms in Cystic Fibrosis. MAGNETOCHEMISTRY 2020. [DOI: 10.3390/magnetochemistry6040072] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Biofilm-associated infections pose a huge burden on healthcare systems worldwide, with recurrent lung infections occurring due to the persistence of biofilm bacteria populations. In cystic fibrosis (CF), thick viscous mucus acts not only as a physical barrier, but also serves as a nidus for infection. Increased antibiotic resistance in the recent years indicates that current therapeutic strategies aimed at biofilm-associated infections are “failing”, emphasizing the need to develop new and improved drug delivery systems with higher efficacy and efficiency. Magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs) have unique and favourable properties encompassing biocompatibility, biodegradability, magnetic and heat-mediated characteristics, making them suitable drug carriers. Additionally, an external magnetic force can be applied to enhance drug delivery to target sites, acting as “nano-knives”, cutting through the bacterial biofilm layer and characteristically thick mucus in CF. In this review, we explore the multidisciplinary approach of using current and novel MNPs as vehicles of drug delivery. Although many of these offer exciting prospects for future biofilm therapeutics, there are also major challenges of this emerging field that need to be addressed.
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Szczęch M, Orsi D, Łopuszyńska N, Cristofolini L, Jasiński K, Węglarz WP, Albertini F, Kereïche S, Szczepanowicz K. Magnetically responsive polycaprolactone nanocarriers for application in the biomedical field: magnetic hyperthermia, magnetic resonance imaging, and magnetic drug delivery. RSC Adv 2020; 10:43607-43618. [PMID: 35519668 PMCID: PMC9058288 DOI: 10.1039/d0ra07507h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2020] [Accepted: 11/22/2020] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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There are huge demands on multifunctional nanocarriers to be used in nanomedicine. Herein, we present a simple and efficient method for the preparation of multifunctional magnetically responsive polymeric-based nanocarriers optimized for biomedical applications. The hybrid delivery system is composed of drug-loaded polymer nanoparticles (poly(caprolactone), PCL) coated with a multilayer shell of polyglutamic acid (PGA) and superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (SPIONs), which are known as bio-acceptable components. The PCL nanocarriers with a model anticancer drug (Paclitaxel, PTX) were formed by the spontaneous emulsification solvent evaporation (SESE) method, while the magnetically responsive multilayer shell was formed via the layer-by-layer (LbL) method. As a result, we obtained magnetically responsive polycaprolactone nanocarriers (MN-PCL NCs) with an average size of about 120 nm. Using the 9.4 T preclinical magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner we confirmed, that obtained MN-PCL NCs can be successfully used as a MRI-detectable drug delivery system. The magnetic hyperthermia effect of the MN-PCL NCs was demonstrated by applying a 25 mT radio-frequency (f = 429 kHz) alternating magnetic field. We found a Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) of 55 W g-1. The conducted research fulfills the first step of investigation for biomedical application, which is mandatory for the planning of any in vitro and in vivo studies.
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- Marta Szczęch
- Jerzy Haber Institute of Catalysis and Surface Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences Krakow Poland +48-124251923 +48-126395121
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- Department of Mathematical, Physical and Computer Sciences, University of Parma Parma Italy
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- Henryk Niewodniczański Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences Krakow Poland
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- Department of Mathematical, Physical and Computer Sciences, University of Parma Parma Italy
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- Henryk Niewodniczański Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences Krakow Poland
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- Henryk Niewodniczański Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences Krakow Poland
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- Institute of Materials for Electronics and Magnetism, National Research Council (CNR) Parma Italy
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- Institute of Biology and Medical Genetics, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University Prague Czech Republic
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- Jerzy Haber Institute of Catalysis and Surface Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences Krakow Poland +48-124251923 +48-126395121
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Asghar K, Qasim M, Dharmapuri G, Das D. Thermoresponsive polymer gated and superparamagnetic nanoparticle embedded hollow mesoporous silica nanoparticles as smart multifunctional nanocarrier for targeted and controlled delivery of doxorubicin. NANOTECHNOLOGY 2020; 31:455604. [PMID: 32311684 DOI: 10.1088/1361-6528/ab8b0e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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The design and development of drug-delivery nanocarriers with high loading capacity, excellent biocompatibility, targeting ability and controllability have been the ultimate goal of the biomedical research community. In this work, we have reported the synthesis and characterization of novel and smart thermoresponsive polymer coated and Fe3O4 embedded hollow mesoporous silica (HmSiO2) based multifunctional superparamagnetic nanocarriers for the delivery of doxorubicin (Dox) for cancer treatment. P(NIPAM-MAm) coated and Fe3O4 nanoparticle (NP) embedded hollow mesoporous silica nanocomposite (HmSiO2-F-P(NIPAM-MAm)) was prepared by the in situ polymerization of NIPAM and MAm monomers on the surface of hollow mesoporous silica NPs (HmSiO2) in the presence of Fe3O4 NPs, oxidizer and crosslinker. TEM analysis showed nearly spherical morphology of HmSiO2-F-P(NIPAM-MAm) nanocarrier with a diameter in the range of 100-300 nm. The coating of P(NIPAM-MAm) layer and embedding of Fe3O4 NPs on the surface of the HmSiO2 NPs was revealed by HRTEM analysis. XRD and FTIR analysis also confirmed the presence of P(NIPAM-MAm) shells and Fe3O4 NPs on hollow mesoporous silica NPs. VSM analysis suggested the superparamagnetic nature of HmSiO2-F-P(NIPAM-MAm) nanocarrier. DSC analysis of HmSiO2-F-P(NIPAM-MAm) nanocarrier showed a phase transition at the temperature of ∼38 °C. The prepared HmSiO2-F-P(NIPAM-MAm) nanocarrier was investigated for its suitability for drug-delivery application using doxorubicin as the model drug by an in vitro method. The encapsulation efficiency and encapsulation capacity were found to be 95% and 6.8%, respectively. HmSiO2-F-P(NIPAM-MAm)-Dox has shown a pH and temperature-dependent Dox release profile. A relatively faster release of Dox from the nanocarrier was observed at temperature above the lower critical solution temperature (LCST) than below the LCST. HmSiO2-F-P(NIPAM-MAm) nanocarrier was found to be biocompatible in nature. In vitro cytotoxicity studies against Hela cells suggested that the HmSiO2-F-P(NIPAM-MAm)-Dox nanocomposite nanocarrier has good anticancer activity. In vitro cellular uptake study of HmSiO2-F-P(NIPAM-MAm)-Dox nanocomposite nanocarrier demonstrated its good internalisation ability into Hela cells. Thus, the prepared nanocomposites show potential as nanocarrier for targeted and controlled drug delivery for cancer treatment.
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- Khushnuma Asghar
- School of Engineering Sciences and Technology, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad 500046, India
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Walker M, Will I, Pratt A, Chechik V, Genever P, Ungar D. Magnetically Triggered Release of Entrapped Bioactive Proteins from Thermally Responsive Polymer-Coated Iron Oxide Nanoparticles for Stem-Cell Proliferation. ACS APPLIED NANO MATERIALS 2020; 3:5008-5013. [PMID: 32626842 PMCID: PMC7325428 DOI: 10.1021/acsanm.0c01167] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/04/2020] [Accepted: 05/15/2020] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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Nanoparticles could conceal bioactive proteins during therapeutic delivery, avoiding side effects. Superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (SPIONs) coated with a temperature-sensitive polymer were tested for protein release. We show that coated SPIONs can entrap test proteins and release them in a temperature-controlled manner in a biological system. Magnetically heating SPIONs triggered protein release at bulk solution temperatures below the polymer transition. The entrapped growth factor Wnt3a was inactive until magnetically triggered release, upon which it could increase mesenchymal stem cell proliferation. Once the polymer transition will be chemically adjusted above body temperature, this system could be used for targeted cell stimulation in model animals and humans.
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- Matthew Walker
- Department
of Biology, University of York, York YO10 5DD, U.K.
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- Department
of Electronic Engineering, University of
York, York YO10 5DD, U.K.
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- Department
of Physics, University of York, York YO10 5DD, U.K.
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- Department
of Chemistry, University of York, York YO10 5DD, U.K.
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- Department
of Biology, University of York, York YO10 5DD, U.K.
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- Department
of Biology, University of York, York YO10 5DD, U.K.
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Krishnan BP, Prieto-López LO, Hoefgen S, Xue L, Wang S, Valiante V, Cui J. Thermomagneto-Responsive Smart Biocatalysts for Malonyl-Coenzyme A Synthesis. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2020; 12:20982-20990. [PMID: 32268726 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.0c04344] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Smart biocatalysts, in which enzymes are conjugated to stimuli-responsive polymers, have gained considerable attention because of their catalytic switchability and recyclability. Although many systems have been developed, they require separate laboratory techniques for their recovery, making them unsuitable for many practical applications. To address these issues, we designed a thermomagneto-responsive biocatalyst by immobilizing an enzyme on the terminal of thermo-responsive polymer brushes tethered on magnetic nanoparticle (NP) clusters. The concept is demonstrated by a system consisting of iron oxide NPs, poly(N-isopropyl-acrylamide), and a malonyl-Coenzyme A synthetase (MatB). By using free malonate and coenzyme A (CoA), the designed catalyst exhibits adequate activity for the production of malonyl-CoA. Thanks to the use of a magnetic NP cluster, whose magnetic moment is high, this system is fully recoverable under the magnetic field at above 32 °C because of the collapse of the thermo-responsive polymer shell in the clusters. In addition, the recycled catalyst maintains moderate activity even after three cycles, and it also shows excellent catalytic switchability, that is, negligible catalytic activity at 25 °C because of the blockage of the active sites of the enzyme by the extended hydrophilic polymer chains but great catalytic activity at a temperatures above the lower critical solution temperature at which the enzymes are exposed to the reaction medium because of the thermo-responsive contraction of polymer chains. Because the azide functionality in our system can be easily functionalized depending upon our need, such catalytically switchable, fully recoverable, and recyclable multiresponsive catalytic systems can be of high relevance for other cell-free biosynthetic approaches.
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- Baiju P Krishnan
- INM-Leibniz Institute for New Materials, Campus D2 2, Saarbrücken 66123, Germany
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- Leibniz Research Group-Biobricks of Microbial Natural Product Syntheses, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology, Hans Knöll Institute, Adolf-Reichwein-Straße 23, 07745 Jena, Germany
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- INM-Leibniz Institute for New Materials, Campus D2 2, Saarbrücken 66123, Germany
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- INM-Leibniz Institute for New Materials, Campus D2 2, Saarbrücken 66123, Germany
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- Leibniz Research Group-Biobricks of Microbial Natural Product Syntheses, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology, Hans Knöll Institute, Adolf-Reichwein-Straße 23, 07745 Jena, Germany
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- INM-Leibniz Institute for New Materials, Campus D2 2, Saarbrücken 66123, Germany
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Modulating the interfacial properties of magnetic nanoparticles through surface modification with a binary polymer mixture towards stabilization of double emulsions. Colloids Surf A Physicochem Eng Asp 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfa.2019.124208] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Yildirim T, Pervez M, Li B, O’Reilly RK. Size-controlled clustering of iron oxide nanoparticles within fluorescent nanogels using LCST-driven self-assembly. J Mater Chem B 2020; 8:5330-5335. [DOI: 10.1039/c9tb02868d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Size-controlled clustering of iron oxide nanoparticles (IONPs) within the fluorescent polymer nanogels was achieved using the lower critical solution temperature (LCST) driven self-assembly and cross-linking of grafted polymer on the IONPs.
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- School of Chemistry
- University of Birmingham
- Birmingham
- UK
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- Department of Chemistry
- University of Warwick
- Coventry
- UK
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Yamashita K, Okada S, Sawada H. Preparation of fluoroalkyl end-capped vinyltrimethoxysilane oligomeric silica/magnetite composites – Application to separation of oil and water. Colloids Surf A Physicochem Eng Asp 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfa.2019.123668] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Qiu S, Zhuang J, Jin S, Yang NL. Nitrocatecholic copolymers - synthesis and their remarkable binding affinity. Chem Commun (Camb) 2019; 55:10748-10751. [PMID: 31432812 DOI: 10.1039/c9cc04425f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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Nitrocatecholic random copolymers were obtained from nitration of protected catechol-N-isopropylacrylamide copolymers. Incorporation of 5% nitrocatecholic counits can lead to remarkable enhancement of the binding affinity toward Fe3O4 nanoparticles and an organic boronic acid by a factor of 40 and 20, respectively.
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- Shenjie Qiu
- Department of Chemistry and The Center for Engineered Polymeric Materials, College of Staten Island of the City University of New York, Staten Island, NY 10314, USA. and PhD Program in Chemistry, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, New York, NY 10016, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and The Center for Engineered Polymeric Materials, College of Staten Island of the City University of New York, Staten Island, NY 10314, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry and The Center for Engineered Polymeric Materials, College of Staten Island of the City University of New York, Staten Island, NY 10314, USA. and PhD Program in Chemistry, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, New York, NY 10016, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and The Center for Engineered Polymeric Materials, College of Staten Island of the City University of New York, Staten Island, NY 10314, USA. and PhD Program in Chemistry, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, New York, NY 10016, USA
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Madkour M, Bumajdad A, Al-Sagheer F. To what extent do polymeric stabilizers affect nanoparticles characteristics? Adv Colloid Interface Sci 2019; 270:38-53. [PMID: 31174003 DOI: 10.1016/j.cis.2019.05.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/05/2019] [Revised: 05/03/2019] [Accepted: 05/05/2019] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Colloidal synthesis of nanoparticles using polymeric stabilizers as a template of a structure directing agent provided a plethora of opportunities in fabricating nanoparticles (NPs) with controlled size, shape, composition and structural characteristics. To understand the complete potency of polymeric stabilizers during the synthesis of nanoparticles, the relationship between polymer characteristics such as structure, molecular weight and concentration and nanoparticles characteristics is discussed in depth. This review portrays the use of polymers to attain nanostructured materials via covalent and non-covalent approaches. These polymers can also serve as surfaces modifier as well as the growth regulators during the synthesis of nanomaterials. The effect provided by polymers that directs the formation of nanomaterials into desired forms is otherwise hard to achieve. We especially spotlight on the approaches for tuning the characteristic properties of nanoparticles via cautious choice of the polymer system with special focus to stimuli-responsive polymers. This review mainly focusses on answering the main challenging question; what is the ideal polymeric stabilizer system to obtain specific morphology, size and phase structure of nanoparticles? Such vital information will enable rational design of nanoparticles to meet specific needs for different applications.
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Lassenberger A, Scheberl A, Batchu KC, Cristiglio V, Grillo I, Hermida-Merino D, Reimhult E, Baccile N. Biocompatible Glyconanoparticles by Grafting Sophorolipid Monolayers on Monodispersed Iron Oxide Nanoparticles. ACS APPLIED BIO MATERIALS 2019; 2:3095-3107. [DOI: 10.1021/acsabm.9b00427] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Andrea Lassenberger
- Department of Nanobiotechnology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, Institute for Biologically Inspired Materials, Muthgasse 11/II, 1190 Vienna, Austria
- Institut Laue-Langevin, 71 Avenue des Martyrs, Grenoble 38042 CEDEX 9, France
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- Department of Nanobiotechnology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, Institute for Biologically Inspired Materials, Muthgasse 11/II, 1190 Vienna, Austria
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- Institut Laue-Langevin, 71 Avenue des Martyrs, Grenoble 38042 CEDEX 9, France
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- Institut Laue-Langevin, 71 Avenue des Martyrs, Grenoble 38042 CEDEX 9, France
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- ESRF, The European Synchrotron, 71 Avenue des Martyrs, Grenoble 38042 CEDEX 9, France
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- Department of Nanobiotechnology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, Institute for Biologically Inspired Materials, Muthgasse 11/II, 1190 Vienna, Austria
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- Sorbonne Université, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Laboratoire de Chimie de la Matière Condensée de Paris, LCMCP, Paris F-75005, France
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Reimhult E, Schroffenegger M, Lassenberger A. Design Principles for Thermoresponsive Core-Shell Nanoparticles: Controlling Thermal Transitions by Brush Morphology. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2019; 35:7092-7104. [PMID: 31035760 PMCID: PMC6551573 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.9b00665] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2019] [Revised: 04/17/2019] [Indexed: 05/15/2023]
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In this feature article, we summarize our recent work on understanding and controlling the thermal behavior of nanoparticles grafted with thermoresponsive polymer shells. Precision synthesis of monodisperse superparamagnetic iron oxide nanocrystals was combined with irreversible dense grafting of nitrodopamide-anchored thermoresponsive polymer chains. We provide an overview of how the dense and stable grafting of biomedically relevant polymers, including poly(ethylene glycol), poly( N-isopropylacrylamide), polysarcosin, and polyoxazolines, can be achieved. This platform has made it possible for us to demonstrate that the polymer brush geometry, as defined by the nanoparticle core and relative polymer brush size, determines the thermal transitions of the polymer brush. We furthermore summarize our work on how the polymer shell transitions and nanoparticle aggregation can be tuned. With the independent variation of the core and the shell, we can optimize and precisely control the thermally controlled solubility of our system. Finally, our feature article gives examples relevant to current and future applications. We show how the thermal response of the shell influences the nanoparticle performance in biological fluids and interactions with proteins and cells, also under purely magnetic actuation of the nanoparticles through the superparamagnetic iron oxide core.
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- Erik Reimhult
- Institute
for Biologically Inspired Materials, Department of Nanobiotechnology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Muthgasse 11, 1190 Vienna, Austria
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- Institute
for Biologically Inspired Materials, Department of Nanobiotechnology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Muthgasse 11, 1190 Vienna, Austria
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Odrobińska J, Gumieniczek-Chłopek E, Szuwarzyński M, Radziszewska A, Fiejdasz S, Strączek T, Kapusta C, Zapotoczny S. Magnetically Navigated Core-Shell Polymer Capsules as Nanoreactors Loadable at the Oil/Water Interface. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2019; 11:10905-10913. [PMID: 30810298 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.8b22690] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Polymer core-shell nanocapsules with magnetic nanoparticles embedded in their oil cores were fabricated and applied as nano(photo)reactors. Superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (SPIONs) coated with oleic acid were first synthesized and characterized structurally, and their magnetic properties were determined. The capsules with chitosan-based shells were then formed in a one-step process by sonication-assisted mixing of (1) an aqueous solution of the hydrophobically derived chitosan and (2) oleic acid containing the dispersed SPIONs. In this way, magnetic capsules with a diameter of approximately 500-600 nm containing encapsulated SPIONs with an average diameter of approximately 20-30 nm were formed as revealed by dynamic light scattering and scanning transmission electron microscopy measurements. The composition and magnetic properties of the formed capsules were also followed using dynamic light scattering, electron microscopies, and magnetic force microscopy. The water-dispersible capsules, thanks to their magnetic properties, were then navigated in a static magnetic field gradient and transferred between the water and oil phases, as evidenced by fluorescence microscopy. In this way, the capsules could be loaded in a controlled way with a hydrophobic reactant, perylene, which was later photooxidized upon transferring the capsules to the aqueous phase. The capsules were shown to serve as robust reloadable nanoreactors/nanocontainers that via magnetic navigation can be transferred between immiscible phases without disruption. These features make them promising reusable systems not only for loading and carrying lipophilic actives, conducting useful reactions in the confined environment of the capsules, but also for magnetically separating and guiding the encapsulated active molecules to the site of action.
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- Joanna Odrobińska
- Faculty of Chemistry , Jagiellonian University , Gronostajowa 2 , 30-387 Krakow , Poland
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- Faculty of Chemistry , Jagiellonian University , Gronostajowa 2 , 30-387 Krakow , Poland
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Li M, Deng L, Li J, Yuan W, Gao X, Ni J, Jiang H, Zeng J, Ren J, Wang P. Actively Targeted Magnetothermally Responsive Nanocarriers/Doxorubicin for Thermochemotherapy of Hepatoma. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2018; 10:41107-41117. [PMID: 30403475 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.8b14972] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Nanodrug-delivery systems modified with targeting molecules allow antitumor drugs to localize to tumor sites efficiently. CD147 protein is expressed highly on hepatoma cells. Firstly, we synthesized magnetothermally responsive nanocarriers/doxorubicin (MTRN/DOX) which was composed of manganese zinc (Mn-Zn) ferrite magnetic nanoparticles, amphiphilic and thermosensitivity copolymer drug carriers together with DOX. Then CD147-MTRN/DOX was formed with MTRN/DOX and monoclonal antibody that specifically binds to CD147 protein. It could target hepatoma cells actively and improve the DOX concentration in the tumor sites. Subsequently, an external alternating magnetic field elevated the temperature of the thermomagnetic particles, resulting in structural changes in the thermosensitive copolymer drug carriers, thereby releasing DOX. Hence, CD147-MTRN/DOX could enhance the responsiveness of hepatoma cells to the pre-existing chemotherapy drugs owing to active targeting combined synergistically with thermotherapy and chemotherapy, which has more significant anticancer effects than MTRN/DOX.
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- Minghua Li
- Department of Radiology, Tongji Hospital, School of Medicine , Tongji University , Shanghai 200065 , P. R. China
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- Institute of Nano and Biopolymeric Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering , Tongji University , Shanghai 201804 , P. R. China
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- Institute of Nano and Biopolymeric Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering , Tongji University , Shanghai 201804 , P. R. China
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- Institute of Nano and Biopolymeric Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering , Tongji University , Shanghai 201804 , P. R. China
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- Department of Radiology, Tongji Hospital, School of Medicine , Tongji University , Shanghai 200065 , P. R. China
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- Department of Radiology, Tongji Hospital, School of Medicine , Tongji University , Shanghai 200065 , P. R. China
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- Department of Radiology, Tongji Hospital, School of Medicine , Tongji University , Shanghai 200065 , P. R. China
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- Department of Radiology, Tongji Hospital, School of Medicine , Tongji University , Shanghai 200065 , P. R. China
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- Institute of Nano and Biopolymeric Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering , Tongji University , Shanghai 201804 , P. R. China
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- Department of Radiology, Tongji Hospital, School of Medicine , Tongji University , Shanghai 200065 , P. R. China
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Ojha S, Chappa S, Mhatre AM, Singh KK, Debnath AK, Pandey AK. Poly(ethylene glycol methacrylate phosphate) grafting on silica shell formed on magnetite nanoparticles: applications to selective sequestration of f-element ions. J Radioanal Nucl Chem 2018. [DOI: 10.1007/s10967-018-6228-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Shi W, Didier JE, Ingber DE, Weitz DA. Collective Shape Actuation of Polymer Double Emulsions by Solvent Evaporation. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2018; 10:31865-31869. [PMID: 30199225 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.8b13216] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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We demonstrate that the shape actuation of water-in-oil-in-water double emulsion droplets can be achieved by controlling solvent evaporation in a model system, where the oil phase consists of hydrophobic homopolymer/amphiphilic block copolymer/solvent. A gradient of interfacial tension is created in the polymer shell, which drives significant deformation of the droplets in constant volume. The deformed droplets recover to their initial shape spontaneously, and shape actuation of droplets can be further tuned by osmotic pressure. Our model system provides a new prototype for developing shape-responsive droplets in a solvent environment.
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- Vascular Biology Program, Departments of Pathology and Surgery , Children's Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School , Boston , Massachusetts 02115 , United States
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Tan L, Liu B, Siemensmeyer K, Glebe U, Böker A. Synthesis of thermo-responsive nanocomposites of superparamagnetic cobalt nanoparticles/poly(N-isopropylacrylamide). J Colloid Interface Sci 2018; 526:124-134. [PMID: 29729424 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2018.04.074] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2017] [Revised: 04/16/2018] [Accepted: 04/17/2018] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Novel nanocomposites of superparamagnetic cobalt nanoparticles (Co NPs) and poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPAM) were fabricated through surface-initiated atom-transfer radical polymerization (SI-ATRP). We firstly synthesized a functional ATRP initiator, containing an amine (as anchoring group) and a 2-bromopropionate group (SI-ATRP initiator). Oleic acid- and trioctylphosphine oxide-coated Co NPs were then modified with the initiator via ligand exchange. The process is facile and rapid for efficient surface functionalization and afterwards the Co NPs can be dispersed into polar solvent DMF without aggregation. Transmission electron microscopy, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, and dynamic light scattering measurements confirmed the success of ligand exchange. The following polymerization of NIPAM was conducted on the surface of Co NPs. Temperature-dependent dynamic light scattering study showed the responsive behavior of PNIPAM-coated Co NPs. The combination of superparamagnetic and thermo-responsive properties in these hybrid nanoparticles is promising for future applications e.g. in biomedicine.
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- Li Tan
- Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Polymer Research IAP, Geiselbergstr. 69, 14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany; Lehrstuhl für Polymermaterialien und Polymertechnologie, Universität Potsdam, 14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany
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- Institute of Chemistry Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100864 Beijing, China
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- Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Polymer Research IAP, Geiselbergstr. 69, 14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany.
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- Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Polymer Research IAP, Geiselbergstr. 69, 14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany; Lehrstuhl für Polymermaterialien und Polymertechnologie, Universität Potsdam, 14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany.
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Iida R, Mitomo H, Niikura K, Matsuo Y, Ijiro K. Two-Step Assembly of Thermoresponsive Gold Nanorods Coated with a Single Kind of Ligand. SMALL (WEINHEIM AN DER BERGSTRASSE, GERMANY) 2018; 14:e1704230. [PMID: 29457380 DOI: 10.1002/smll.201704230] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2017] [Revised: 01/08/2018] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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Gold nanorods (GNRs) coated with a single kind of ligand show thermoreponsive two-step assembly to provide a hierarchical structure. The GNRs (33 nm in length × 14 nm in diameter) coated with a hexa(ethylene glycol) (HEG) derivative form side-by-side assemblies at 30 °C (TA1 ) as a steady state through dehydration. By further heating to over 40 °C (TA2 ), larger assemblies, which are composed of the side-by-side assembled units, are formed as hierarchical structures. The dehydration temperature of the HEG derivative varies depending on the free volume of the HEG unit, which corresponds to the curvature of the GNRs. Upon heating, dehydration first occurs from the ligands on the side portions with a lower curvature, and then from the ligands on the edge portions with a higher curvature. The different sized GNRs (33 × 8 and 54 × 15 nm) also show two-step assembly. Both the TA1 and TA2 are dependent on the diameter of the GNRs, but independent of their length. This result supports that the dehydration is dependent on the free volume, which corresponds to the curvature. Anisotropic assembly focusing on differences in curvature provides new guidelines for the fabrication of hierarchical structures.
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- Ryo Iida
- Graduate School of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 060-8628, Japan
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- Research Institute for Electronic Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 001-0021, Japan
- Global Station for Soft Matter, Global Institution for Collaborative Research and Education (GI-CoRE), Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 001-0021, Japan
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- Department of Innovative Systems Engineering, and, Graduate School of Environmental Symbiotic System Major, Nippon Institute of Technology, Miyashiro, Saitama, 345-8501, Japan
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- Research Institute for Electronic Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 001-0021, Japan
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- Research Institute for Electronic Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 001-0021, Japan
- Global Station for Soft Matter, Global Institution for Collaborative Research and Education (GI-CoRE), Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 001-0021, Japan
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Li M, Bu W, Ren J, Li J, Deng L, Gao M, Gao X, Wang P. Enhanced Synergism of Thermo-chemotherapy For Liver Cancer with Magnetothermally Responsive Nanocarriers. Theranostics 2018; 8:693-709. [PMID: 29344299 PMCID: PMC5771086 DOI: 10.7150/thno.21297] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/02/2017] [Accepted: 10/14/2017] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
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A combination of magnetic hyperthermia and magnetothermally-facilitated drug release system was developed as a promising strategy for liver cancer therapy. The thermosensitive copolymer, 6sPCL-b-P(MEO2MA-co-OEGMA) shows a good temperature-controlled drug release response. Mn-Zn ferrite magnetic nanoparticles (MZF-MNPs) exhibit a strong magnetic thermal effect with an alternating magnetic field (AMF). Owing to its high magnetic sensitivity, the magnetothermally-responsive nanocarrier/doxorubicin (MTRN/DOX) can be concentrated in the tumor site efficiently through magnetic targeting. Given this information, we synthesized MTRN/DOX which was composed of MZF-MNPs, thermosensitive copolymer drug carriers, and the chemotherapeutic drug---DOX, to study its anticancer effects both in vitro and in vivo.METHODS: MTRN/DOX was designed and prepared. Firstly, we investigated the accumulation effects of MTRN/DOX by Prussian blue staining, transmission electron microscopy (TEM), laser scanning confocal microscopy (LSCM) and conducted 7.0 T MRI. Following this, the magnetothermal effects of MTRN/DOX were studied using an infrared thermal camera. DOX uptake, distribution, and retention in tumor cells and the distribution of MTRN/DOX in vivo were then analyzed via LSCM, flow cytometry and live fluorescence imaging. Lastly, its anticancer effects were evaluated by MTT, AM/PI staining, Annexin-VFITC/PI staining and comparison of relative tumor volume. RESULTS: We found that MTRN/DOX can be efficiently concentrated in the tumor site through magnetic targeting, increasing the uptake of DOX by tumor cells, and prolonging the retention time of the drug within the tumors. MTRN/DOX showed good magnetothermal effects both in vitro and in vivo. Based on the above results, MTRN/DOX had significant anticancer effects. CONCLUSIONS: MTRN/DOX causes temporal-spatial synchronism of thermo-chemotherapy and together with chemotherapeutic drugs, produces a synergistic effect, which enhances the sensitivity of tumor cells to DOX and reduces their side effects.
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- Minghua Li
- Department of Radiology, Tongji Hospital, School of Medicine, Tongji University, Shanghai 200065, China
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- School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062,China
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- Institute of Nano and Biopolymeric Materials, School of Materials, Science and Engineering, Tongji University , Shanghai 201804, China
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- Institute of Nano and Biopolymeric Materials, School of Materials, Science and Engineering, Tongji University , Shanghai 201804, China
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- Institute of Nano and Biopolymeric Materials, School of Materials, Science and Engineering, Tongji University , Shanghai 201804, China
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- Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
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- Department of Radiology, Tongji Hospital, School of Medicine, Tongji University, Shanghai 200065, China
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- Department of Radiology, Tongji Hospital, School of Medicine, Tongji University, Shanghai 200065, China
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Kurzhals S, Schroffenegger M, Gal N, Zirbs R, Reimhult E. Influence of Grafted Block Copolymer Structure on Thermoresponsiveness of Superparamagnetic Core-Shell Nanoparticles. Biomacromolecules 2017; 19:1435-1444. [PMID: 29161516 PMCID: PMC5954351 DOI: 10.1021/acs.biomac.7b01403] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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The
morphology and topology of thermoresponsive polymers have a
strong impact on their responsive properties. Grafting onto spherical
particles has been shown to reduce responsiveness and transition temperatures;
grafting of block copolymers has shown that switchable or retained
wettability of a surface or particle during desolvation of one block
can take place. Here, doubly thermoresponsive block copolymers were
grafted onto spherical, monodisperse, and superparamagnetic iron oxide
nanoparticles to investigate the effect of thermal desolvation on
spherical brushes of block copolymers. By inverting the block order,
the influence of core proximity on the responsive properties of the
individual blocks could be studied as well as their relative influence
on the nanoparticle colloidal stability. The inner block was shown
to experience a stronger reduction in transition temperature and transition
enthalpy compared to the outer block. Still, the outer block also
experiences a significant reduction in responsiveness due to the restricted
environment in the nanoparticle shell compared to that of the free
polymer state. The demonstrated pronounced distance dependence importantly
implies the possibility, but also the necessity, to radially tailor
polymer hydration transitions for applications such as drug delivery,
hyperthermia, and biotechnological separation for which thermally
responsive nanoparticles are being developed.
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- Steffen Kurzhals
- Institute for Biologically Inspired Materials, Department of Nanobiotechnology , University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna , Muthgasse 11 , 1190 Vienna , Austria
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- Institute for Biologically Inspired Materials, Department of Nanobiotechnology , University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna , Muthgasse 11 , 1190 Vienna , Austria
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- Institute for Biologically Inspired Materials, Department of Nanobiotechnology , University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna , Muthgasse 11 , 1190 Vienna , Austria
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- Institute for Biologically Inspired Materials, Department of Nanobiotechnology , University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna , Muthgasse 11 , 1190 Vienna , Austria
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- Institute for Biologically Inspired Materials, Department of Nanobiotechnology , University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna , Muthgasse 11 , 1190 Vienna , Austria
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Nguyen NHA, Darwish MSA, Stibor I, Kejzlar P, Ševců A. Magnetic Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) Nanocomposites: Effect of Preparation Method on Antibacterial Properties. NANOSCALE RESEARCH LETTERS 2017; 12:571. [PMID: 29052060 PMCID: PMC5648729 DOI: 10.1186/s11671-017-2341-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/06/2017] [Accepted: 10/10/2017] [Indexed: 05/16/2023]
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The most challenging task in the preparation of magnetic poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (Fe3O4-PNIPAAm) nanocomposites for bio-applications is to maximise their reactivity and stability. Emulsion polymerisation, in situ precipitation and physical addition were used to produce Fe3O4-PNIPAAm-1, Fe3O4-PNIPAAm-2 and Fe3O4-PNIPAAm-3, respectively. Their properties were characterised using scanning electron microscopy (morphology), zeta-potential (surface charge), thermogravimetric analysis (stability), vibrating sample magnetometry (magnetisation) and dynamic light scattering. Moreover, we investigated the antibacterial effect of each nanocomposite against Gram-negative Escherichia coli and Gram-positive Staphylococcus aureus. Both Fe3O4-PNIPAAm-1 and Fe3O4-PNIPAAm-2 nanocomposites displayed high thermal stability, zeta potential and magnetisation values, suggesting stable colloidal systems. Overall, the presence of Fe3O4-PNIPAAm nanocomposites, even at lower concentrations, caused significant damage to both E. coli and S. aureus DNA and led to a decrease in cell viability. Fe3O4-PNIPAAm-1 displayed a stronger antimicrobial effect against both bacterial strains than Fe3O4-PNIPAAm-2 and Fe3O4-PNIPAAm-3. Staphylococcus aureus was more sensitive than E. coli to all three magnetic PNIPAAm nanocomposites.
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- Nhung H. A. Nguyen
- Institute for Nanomaterials, Advanced Technologies and Innovation, Technical University of Liberec, 461 17 Liberec, Czech Republic
- Faculty of Mechatronics, Informatics and Interdisciplinary Studies, Technical University of Liberec, 461 17 Liberec, Czech Republic
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- Institute for Nanomaterials, Advanced Technologies and Innovation, Technical University of Liberec, 461 17 Liberec, Czech Republic
- Egyptian Petroleum Research Institute, 1 Ahmed El-Zomor Street, El Zohour Region, Nasr City, Cairo 11727 Egypt
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- Institute for Nanomaterials, Advanced Technologies and Innovation, Technical University of Liberec, 461 17 Liberec, Czech Republic
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- Institute for Nanomaterials, Advanced Technologies and Innovation, Technical University of Liberec, 461 17 Liberec, Czech Republic
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- Institute for Nanomaterials, Advanced Technologies and Innovation, Technical University of Liberec, 461 17 Liberec, Czech Republic
- Faculty of Mechatronics, Informatics and Interdisciplinary Studies, Technical University of Liberec, 461 17 Liberec, Czech Republic
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Imanifard S, Zarrabi A, Zarepour A, Jafari M, Khosravi A, Razmjou A. Nanoengineered Thermoresponsive Magnetic Nanoparticles for Drug Controlled Release. MACROMOL CHEM PHYS 2017. [DOI: 10.1002/macp.201700350] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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- Saeedeh Imanifard
- Department of Biotechnology; Faculty of Advanced Sciences and Technologies; University of Isfahan; Isfahan 81746-73441 Iran
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- Department of Biotechnology; Faculty of Advanced Sciences and Technologies; University of Isfahan; Isfahan 81746-73441 Iran
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- Department of Biotechnology; Faculty of Advanced Sciences and Technologies; University of Isfahan; Isfahan 81746-73441 Iran
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- Department of Biotechnology; Faculty of Advanced Sciences and Technologies; University of Isfahan; Isfahan 81746-73441 Iran
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering; Khomeinishahr Branch; Islamic Azad University; Khomeinishahr/Isfahan 84181-48499 Iran
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- Department of Biotechnology; Faculty of Advanced Sciences and Technologies; University of Isfahan; Isfahan 81746-73441 Iran
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Kertmen A, Torruella P, Coy E, Yate L, Nowaczyk G, Gapiński J, Vogt C, Toprak M, Estradé S, Peiró F, Milewski S, Jurga S, Andruszkiewicz R. Acetate-Induced Disassembly of Spherical Iron Oxide Nanoparticle Clusters into Monodispersed Core-Shell Structures upon Nanoemulsion Fusion. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2017; 33:10351-10365. [PMID: 28895402 PMCID: PMC5730226 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.7b02743] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/05/2017] [Revised: 09/11/2017] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
Abstract
It has been long known that the physical encapsulation of oleic acid-capped iron oxide nanoparticles (OA-IONPs) with the cetyltrimethylammonium (CTA+) surfactant induces the formation of spherical iron oxide nanoparticle clusters (IONPCs). However, the behavior and functional properties of IONPCs in chemical reactions have been largely neglected and are still not well-understood. Herein, we report an unconventional ligand-exchange function of IONPCs activated when dispersed in an ethyl acetate/acetate buffer system. The ligand exchange can successfully transform hydrophobic OA-IONP building blocks of IONPCs into highly hydrophilic, acetate-capped iron oxide nanoparticles (Ac-IONPs). More importantly, we demonstrate that the addition of silica precursors (tetraethyl orthosilicate and 3-aminopropyltriethoxysilane) to the acetate/oleate ligand-exchange reaction of the IONPs induces the disassembly of the IONPCs into monodispersed iron oxide-acetate-silica core-shell-shell (IONPs@acetate@SiO2) nanoparticles. Our observations evidence that the formation of IONPs@acetate@SiO2 nanoparticles is initiated by a unique micellar fusion mechanism between the Pickering-type emulsions of IONPCs and nanoemulsions of silica precursors formed under ethyl acetate buffered conditions. A dynamic rearrangement of the CTA+-oleate bilayer on the IONPC surfaces is proposed to be responsible for the templating process of the silica shells around the individual IONPs. In comparison to previously reported methods in the literature, our work provides a much more detailed experimental evidence of the silica-coating mechanism in a nanoemulsion system. Overall, ethyl acetate is proven to be a very efficient agent for an effortless preparation of monodispersed IONPs@acetate@SiO2 and hydrophilic Ac-IONPs from IONPCs.
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- Ahmet Kertmen
- Department
of Pharmaceutical Technology and Biochemistry, Gdansk University of Technology, G. Narutowicza 11/12, 80-233 Gdansk, Poland
- NanoBioMedical
Centre, Adam Mickiewicz University, Umultowska 85, 61-614 Poznan, Poland
- Department
of Applied Physics, KTH-Royal Institute
of Technology, Roslagstullsbacken
21, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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- LENS-MIND-IN2UB,
Departament d’Electronica, Universitat
de Barcelona, Martí i Franquès 1, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
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- NanoBioMedical
Centre, Adam Mickiewicz University, Umultowska 85, 61-614 Poznan, Poland
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- CIC
biomaGUNE, Paseo Miramón 182, 20009 Donostia—San Sebastian, Spain
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- NanoBioMedical
Centre, Adam Mickiewicz University, Umultowska 85, 61-614 Poznan, Poland
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- NanoBioMedical
Centre, Adam Mickiewicz University, Umultowska 85, 61-614 Poznan, Poland
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- Department
of Applied Physics, KTH-Royal Institute
of Technology, Roslagstullsbacken
21, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department
of Applied Physics, KTH-Royal Institute
of Technology, Roslagstullsbacken
21, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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- LENS-MIND-IN2UB,
Departament d’Electronica, Universitat
de Barcelona, Martí i Franquès 1, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
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- LENS-MIND-IN2UB,
Departament d’Electronica, Universitat
de Barcelona, Martí i Franquès 1, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
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- Department
of Pharmaceutical Technology and Biochemistry, Gdansk University of Technology, G. Narutowicza 11/12, 80-233 Gdansk, Poland
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- NanoBioMedical
Centre, Adam Mickiewicz University, Umultowska 85, 61-614 Poznan, Poland
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- Department
of Pharmaceutical Technology and Biochemistry, Gdansk University of Technology, G. Narutowicza 11/12, 80-233 Gdansk, Poland
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Kurzhals S, Gal N, Zirbs R, Reimhult E. Aggregation of thermoresponsive core-shell nanoparticles: Influence of particle concentration, dispersant molecular weight and grafting. J Colloid Interface Sci 2017; 500:321-332. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2017.04.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/16/2017] [Revised: 04/01/2017] [Accepted: 04/04/2017] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Kurzhals S, Pretzner B, Reimhult E, Zirbs R. Thermoresponsive Polypeptoid-Coated Superparamagnetic Iron Oxide Nanoparticles by Surface-Initiated Polymerization. MACROMOL CHEM PHYS 2017. [DOI: 10.1002/macp.201700116] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Steffen Kurzhals
- Institute for Biologically Inspired Materials; Department of Nanobiotechnology; University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna; Muthgasse 11 1190 Vienna Austria
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- Institute for Biologically Inspired Materials; Department of Nanobiotechnology; University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna; Muthgasse 11 1190 Vienna Austria
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- Institute for Biologically Inspired Materials; Department of Nanobiotechnology; University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna; Muthgasse 11 1190 Vienna Austria
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- Institute for Biologically Inspired Materials; Department of Nanobiotechnology; University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna; Muthgasse 11 1190 Vienna Austria
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Morgese G, Shirmardi Shaghasemi B, Causin V, Zenobi-Wong M, Ramakrishna SN, Reimhult E, Benetti EM. Next-Generation Polymer Shells for Inorganic Nanoparticles are Highly Compact, Ultra-Dense, and Long-Lasting Cyclic Brushes. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2017. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.201700196] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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- Giulia Morgese
- Laboratory for Surface Science and Technology; Department of Materials; ETH Zürich; Zürich Switzerland
- Cartilage Engineering and Regeneration Laboratory; ETH Zürich; Department of Health Sciences and Technology; ETH Zürich; Zürich Switzerland
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- Institute for Biologically Inspired Materials; Department of Nanobiotechnology; University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences; Vienna Austria
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche; Università degli Studi di Padova; Padova Italy
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- Cartilage Engineering and Regeneration Laboratory; ETH Zürich; Department of Health Sciences and Technology; ETH Zürich; Zürich Switzerland
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- Institute for Biologically Inspired Materials; Department of Nanobiotechnology; University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences; Vienna Austria
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- Laboratory for Surface Science and Technology; Department of Materials; ETH Zürich; Zürich Switzerland
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Morgese G, Shirmardi Shaghasemi B, Causin V, Zenobi-Wong M, Ramakrishna SN, Reimhult E, Benetti EM. Next-Generation Polymer Shells for Inorganic Nanoparticles are Highly Compact, Ultra-Dense, and Long-Lasting Cyclic Brushes. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2017; 56:4507-4511. [DOI: 10.1002/anie.201700196] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/08/2017] [Revised: 02/15/2017] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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- Giulia Morgese
- Laboratory for Surface Science and Technology; Department of Materials; ETH Zürich; Zürich Switzerland
- Cartilage Engineering and Regeneration Laboratory; ETH Zürich; Department of Health Sciences and Technology; ETH Zürich; Zürich Switzerland
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- Institute for Biologically Inspired Materials; Department of Nanobiotechnology; University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences; Vienna Austria
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche; Università degli Studi di Padova; Padova Italy
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- Cartilage Engineering and Regeneration Laboratory; ETH Zürich; Department of Health Sciences and Technology; ETH Zürich; Zürich Switzerland
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- Institute for Biologically Inspired Materials; Department of Nanobiotechnology; University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences; Vienna Austria
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- Laboratory for Surface Science and Technology; Department of Materials; ETH Zürich; Zürich Switzerland
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Kurzhals S, Gal N, Zirbs R, Reimhult E. Controlled aggregation and cell uptake of thermoresponsive polyoxazoline-grafted superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles. NANOSCALE 2017; 9:2793-2805. [PMID: 28155937 DOI: 10.1039/c6nr08654c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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Hydrophilic polymer-coated iron oxide nanoparticles are potential materials for a plethora of applications in the biotechnological field. Typical such polymers, e.g. dextran or poly(ethylene glycol), lack the ability to tailor the biological response to an environmental trigger, while common responsive polymers such as poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) or poly(acrylic acid) are not suitable for biomedical applications. We present the synthesis and characterization of superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles with thermoresponsive polyoxazoline brushes grafted at unprecedented density using nitrodopamine anchor chemistry. Reversible aggregation/deaggregation is observed in water and biological medium, confirming control over the colloidal stability. Thermal switching of the solubility could only be achieved by global heating of the sample, while local magnetothermal heating did not produce a sufficiently strong temperature gradient through the brush. Varying the polymer composition allows for tuning of the lower critical solution temperature (LCST) as well as the average nanoparticle cluster size obtained upon heating. The LCST of polyoxazolines and the thermal colloidal stability are shown to be greatly affected by ion concentration, by polymer grafting density and also by the presence of serum protein; this shows that transition temperatures of free polymers in water can be very misleading for the design of polymer-coated nanomaterials for biomedical applications. Finally, the thermoresponsive SPION are shown to be non-cytotoxic and with a low cell uptake scaling with the hydration of the polymer brush, which is tuned by the polymer composition. Thus, we demonstrate that pozylated nanoparticles provide the advantages of PEG- and PNIPAM-grafted nanoparticles, but provide a tunable and more easily functionalizable platform for further development.
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- Steffen Kurzhals
- Institute for Biologically inspired materials, Department of Nanobiotechnology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Muthgasse 11, 1190 Vienna, Austria.
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- Institute for Biologically inspired materials, Department of Nanobiotechnology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Muthgasse 11, 1190 Vienna, Austria.
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- Institute for Biologically inspired materials, Department of Nanobiotechnology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Muthgasse 11, 1190 Vienna, Austria.
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- Institute for Biologically inspired materials, Department of Nanobiotechnology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Muthgasse 11, 1190 Vienna, Austria.
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Guo S, Zhang Q, Wang D, Wang L, Lin F, Wilson P, Haddleton DM. Bioinspired coating of TiO2nanoparticles with antimicrobial polymers by Cu(0)-LRP: grafting to vs. grafting from. Polym Chem 2017. [DOI: 10.1039/c7py01471f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Titanium dioxide nanoparticles coated with non-leachable biocides were prepared by Cu(0)-LRP of tertiary-amine-containing monomersvia“grafting to” and “grafting from” strategies.
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- Shutong Guo
- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Chemical Pollution Control and Resources Reuse
- School of Environmental and Biological Engineering
- Nanjing University of Science and Technology
- Nanjing 210094
- P. R. China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Chemical Pollution Control and Resources Reuse
- School of Environmental and Biological Engineering
- Nanjing University of Science and Technology
- Nanjing 210094
- P. R. China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Chemical Pollution Control and Resources Reuse
- School of Environmental and Biological Engineering
- Nanjing University of Science and Technology
- Nanjing 210094
- P. R. China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Chemical Pollution Control and Resources Reuse
- School of Environmental and Biological Engineering
- Nanjing University of Science and Technology
- Nanjing 210094
- P. R. China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Chemical Pollution Control and Resources Reuse
- School of Environmental and Biological Engineering
- Nanjing University of Science and Technology
- Nanjing 210094
- P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry
- University of Warwick
- Coventry
- UK
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Wang D, Guo S, Zhang Q, Wilson P, Haddleton DM. Mussel-inspired thermoresponsive polymers with a tunable LCST by Cu(0)-LRP for the construction of smart TiO2 nanocomposites. Polym Chem 2017. [DOI: 10.1039/c7py00736a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Thermoresponsive polymers with different microstructures, a tunable LCST and terminal catechol anchors were synthesized by Cu(0)-LRP for the surface functionalization of TiO2 nanoparticles.
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- Donghao Wang
- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Chemical Pollution Control and Resources Reuse
- School of Environmental and Biological Engineering
- Nanjing University of Science and Technology
- Nanjing 210094
- P. R. China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Chemical Pollution Control and Resources Reuse
- School of Environmental and Biological Engineering
- Nanjing University of Science and Technology
- Nanjing 210094
- P. R. China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Chemical Pollution Control and Resources Reuse
- School of Environmental and Biological Engineering
- Nanjing University of Science and Technology
- Nanjing 210094
- P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry
- University of Warwick
- Coventry
- UK
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Campanella A, Holderer O, Raftopoulos KN, Papadakis CM, Staropoli MP, Appavou MS, Müller-Buschbaum P, Frielinghaus H. Multi-stage freezing of HEUR polymer networks with magnetite nanoparticles. SOFT MATTER 2016; 12:3214-3225. [PMID: 26924466 DOI: 10.1039/c6sm00074f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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We observe a change in the segmental dynamics of hydrogels based on hydrophobically modified ethoxylated urethanes (HEUR) when hydrophobic magnetite nanoparticles (MNPs) are embedded in the hydrogels. The dynamics of the nanocomposite hydrogels is investigated using dielectric relaxation spectroscopy (DRS) and neutron spin echo (NSE) spectroscopy. The magnetic nanoparticles within the hydrophobic domains of the HEUR polymer network increase the size of these domains and their distance. The size increase leads to a dilution of the polymers close to the hydrophobic domain, allowing higher mobility of the smallest polymer blobs close to the "center". This is reflected in the decrease of the activation energy of the β-process detected in the DRS data. The increase in distance leads to an increase of the size of the largest hydrophilic polymer blobs. Therefore, the segmental dynamics of the largest blobs is slowed down. At short time scales, i.e. 10(-9) s < τ < 10(-3) s, the suppression of the segmental dynamics is reflected in the α-relaxation processes detected in the DRS data and in the decrease of the relaxation rate Γ of the segmental motion in the NSE data with increasing concentration of magnetic nanoparticles. The stepwise (multi-stage) freezing of the small blobs is only visible for the pure hydrogel at low temperatures. On the other hand, the glass transition temperature (Tg) decreases upon increasing the MNP loading, indicating an acceleration of the segmental dynamics at long time scales (τ∼ 100 s). Therefore, it would be possible to tune the Tg of the hydrogels by varying the MNP concentration. The contribution of the static inhomogeneities to the total scattering function Sst(q) is extracted from the NSE data, revealing a more ordered gel structure than the one giving rise to the total scattering function S(q), with a relaxed correlation length ξNSE = (43 ± 5) Å which is larger than the fluctuating correlation length from a static investigation ξSANS = (17.2 ± 0.3) Å.
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- A Campanella
- JCNS@FRMII, Lichtenbergstraße 1, 85747 Garching, Germany.
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