Microfluidic assembly of multistage porous silicon-lipid vesicles for controlled drug release




Bárbara Herranz-Blanco, Laura R. Arriaga, Ermei Mäkilä, Alexandra Correia, Neha Shrestha, Sabiruddin Mirza, David A. Weitz, Jarno Salonen, Jouni Hirvonen, Hélder A. Santos

PublisherROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY

2014

Lab on a Chip

LAB ON A CHIP

LAB CHIP

14

6

1083

1086

4

1473-0197

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1039/c3lc51260f



A reliable microfluidic platform for the generation of stable and monodisperse multistage drug delivery systems is reported. A glass-capillary flow-focusing droplet generation device was used to encapsulate thermally hydrocarbonized porous silicon (PSi) microparticles into the aqueous cores of double emulsion drops, yielding the formation of a multistage PSi-lipid vesicle. This composite system enables a large loading capacity for hydrophobic drugs.




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