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Aliphatic polyester-based nanoparticles as drug delivery systems
Jäger, Alessandro ; Štěpánek, Petr (advisor) ; Sedláček, Jan (referee) ; Sikora, Antonín (referee)
Nanoparticles from biodegradable polymers are considered one of the most promising systems for biomedical application as drug delivery systems. Therefore, the synthesis and characterization of a new aliphatic biodegradable copolyester named PBS/PBDL (poly(butylene succinate-co- butylene dilinoleate)) intended to the application as drug delivery system is reported in the thesis. Surfactant-free biodegradable and narrowly distributed, nanosized spherical particles (RH < 60 nm) have been produced from the biodegradable material by applying a single-step nanoprecipitation protocol. The size of the generated polymer nanoparticles (PNPs) could be controlled by adjusting the polymer concentration, the choice of organic solvent, mixing different organic solvents or by changing temperature and ionic strength. By optimizing such parameters sub-100 nm uniform PNPs can be produced through this methodology including the advantage and ability to scale-up production. The nanoparticles structure was characterized in detail by employing a variety of scattering techniques and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). Combined static light scattering (SLS) and dynamic light scattering (DLS) measurements suggested that the nanoparticles comprise a porous core conferring them a non-compact characteristic. Their porosity...
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Rastrovací elektronová mikroskopie mokrých vzorků syntetických polymerů
Šlouf, Miroslav ; Studenovská, Hana ; Rypáček, František ; Sikora, Antonín
Synthetic polymers with high content of water (wet synthetic polymers,hydrogels) are frequently used in tissue engineering. Investigation of their 3D-structure by means of scanning electron microscopy is very difficult: in a standard electron microscope water almost immediately evaporates and the structure breaks down. Nevertheless, hydrogels morphology can be visualised by means of low-vacuum scanning electron microscopy in cryo conditions (cryoLVSEM) and by environmental scanning electron microscopy (ESEM). The two techniques are described and compared.
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