Citation:
Herranz-Blanco, B. ; Arriaga, L. R. ; Makila, E. ; Correia, A. ; Shrestha, N. ; Mirza, S. ; Weitz, D. A. ; Salonen, J. ; Hirvonen, J. ; Santos, H. A. Microfluidic assembly of multistage porous silicon-lipid vesicles for controlled drug release. Lab on a Chip 2014, 14, 1083 - 1086. Copy at http://www.tinyurl.com/yyglqs2b
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2014Abstract:
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.