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NANOMATERIALS
Volume 8, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/nano8040184
Keywords
medicated nanofiber; nanocoating; coaxial electrospinning; structural nanocomposite; sustained release; poorly water-soluble drug
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- National Nature Science Foundation of China [51373101]
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Nanomaterials providing sustained release profiles are highly desired for efficacious drug delivery. Advanced nanotechnologies are useful tools for creating elaborate nanostructure-based nanomaterials to achieve the designed functional performances. In this research, a modified coaxial electrospinning was explored to fabricate a novel core-sheath nanostructure (nanofibers F2), in which a sheath drug-free gliadin layer was successfully coated on the core ketoprofen (KET)-gliadin nanocomposite. A monolithic nanocomposite (nanofibers F1) that was generated through traditional blending electrospinning of core fluid was utilized as a control. Scanning electron microscopy demonstrated that both nanofibers Fl and F2 were linear. Transmission electron microscopy verified that nanofibers F2 featured a clear core-sheath nanostructure with a thin sheath layer about 25 nm, whereas their cores and nanofibers Fl were homogeneous KET-gliadin nanocomposites. X-ray diffraction patterns verified that, as a result of fine compatibility, KET was dispersed in gliadin in an amorphous state. In vitro dissolution tests demonstrated that the thin blank nanocoating in nanofibers F2 significantly modified drug release kinetics from a traditional exponential equation of nanofibers Fl to a zero-order controlled release model, linearly freeing 95.7 +/- 4.7% of the loaded cargoes over a time period of 16 h.
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