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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PHARMACEUTICS AND BIOPHARMACEUTICS
Volume 57, Issue 2, Pages 369-375Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/S0939-6411(03)00193-0
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nanoparticles; polyalkylcyanoacrylate; particle size; molecular weight; analytical ultracentrifugation; dynamic light scattering; electron microscopy
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Nanoparticles represent promising carriers for controlled drug delivery. This work focuses on the size and molecular mass characterization of polyalkylcyanoacrylate nanoparticles formed by anionic emulsion polymerization of butylcyanoacrylate in the presence of poloxamer 188 as a stabilizer. Three different methods were used to determine the size and size distribution of the particle populations: scanning electron microscopy (SEM), dynamic light scattering (DLS), and analytical ultracentrifugation (ANUC). SEM on freeze-dried and Au-shadowed samples showed a relatively narrow distribution of virtually spherical particles with a mean diameter of 167 nm. DLS yielded a monomodal distribution with hydrodynamic diameters around 199 nm (in the absence of additional stabilizer) or 184 nm (in the presence of 1% poloxamer 188). The size distribution determined by ANUC using sedimentation velocity analysis was somewhat more complex, the size of the most abundant particles being around 184 nm. Molar particle mass distributions centered around 2.3 x 10(9) g/mol. The advantages and disadvantages of the three sizing techniques are discussed. (C) 2003 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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