On-Chip Self-Assembly of a Smart Hybrid Nanocomposite for Antitumoral Applications




Bárbara Herranz-Blanco, Dongfei Liu, Ermei Mäkilä, Mohammad-Ali Shahbazi, Eloy Ginestar, Hongbo Zhang, Vladimir Aseyev, Vimalkumar Balasubramanian, Jarno Salonen, Jouni Hirvonen, Hélder A. Santos

PublisherWILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH

2015

Advanced Functional Materials

ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

ADV FUNCT MATER

25

10

1488

1497

10

1616-301X

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.201404122



A hybrid nanocomposite comprised by porous silicon nanoparticles and a stimuli responsive polymeric material, polyethylene glycol-block-poly(L-histidine), is spontaneously formed by nanoprecipitation in a flow-focusing microfluidic chip. The nanocomposite presents a novel hybrid compound micelle structure with a great robustness for therapeutic applications. Therefore, the nanocomposite is developed and tested as a "smart" multistage drug delivery system (MDDS) in response to some of the current problems that cancer treatment presents. Based on the stimuli-responsive behavior of the nanocomposite, a chemotherapeutic agent is successfully loaded into the nanosystem and released upon changes in the pH-values. The nanocomposite demonstrates enhanced stability in plasma, narrow size distribution, improved surface smoothness, and high cytocompatibility. Furthermore, the nanocomposite presents reduced nanoparticle internalization by phagocytic macrophage cells and pH-dependent cell growth inhibition capacity. Overall, the developed hybrid nanocomposite shows very promising features for its further development as a "smart" pH-responsive MDDS.




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