期刊
MATERIALS SCIENCE & ENGINEERING C-MATERIALS FOR BIOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS
卷 31, 期 5, 页码 1084-1090出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.msec.2011.03.009
关键词
Poly (N-isopropylacrylamide) hydrogel; Diffusion; Swelling; Modeling; Controllable drug delivery
资金
- Division of Materials Research of the National Science Foundation [DMR 0231418]
- Princeton Grand Challenges Program
The thermo-sensitive properties of poly (N-isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPA) hydrogels are modified by the addition of hydrophilic acrylamide comonomers and an interpenetrating network of sodium alginate for drug delivery applications near 37 degrees C. A mathematical model is presented to describe the mass transport kinetics during the hydrogel drug delivery process, which is accompanied by a volume change during phase transition. In this model, the transport in the polymer matrix is described by Fick's second law in cylindrical coordinates, with concentration dependent diffusion coefficients. The moving boundary problems caused by the polymer matrix swelling are also solved by numerical simulation. The models show that the Trypan blue release from the modified PNIPA-based hydrogels is strongly concentration dependent. The sodium alginate component is also shown to effectively facilitate the diffusion process. The results from the simulation are in good agreement with the measurements of diffusion and swelling observed from in vitro experiments. The implications of this work are also discussed for practical drug delivery systems. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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