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
Publisher: ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
: 2014
: Lab on a Chip
: LAB ON A CHIP
: LAB CHIP
: 14
: 6
: 1083
: 1086
: 4
: 1473-0197
DOI: https://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.