期刊
BIOMATERIALS
卷 22, 期 9, 页码 929-941出版社
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/S0142-9612(00)00258-1
关键词
poly(ethylene glycol); hydrogels; drug delivery; controlled release; bovine serum albumin
Highly crosslinked hydrogel spheres were fabricated using UV photopolymerization of poly(ethylene glycol) diacrylate (PEG-DA) and pentaerythritol triacrylate (PETA) with 2,2'-dimethoxy-2-phenyl-acetophenone (DMPA) as the photoinitiator. Spheres were fabricated both with and without one of three comonomers: acrylic acid, acrylamide or allylamine. Photopolymerization rates and polymer morphology were determined using attenuated total reflectance/Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy and electron microscopy. respectively. These gels were further characterized for volume change, equilibrium water content, diffusivity of the expanding gel, molecular weight between crosslinks and polymer mesh size. Hydrogels with comonomers generally demonstrated an increase in equilibrium water content, average molecular weight between crosslinks and mesh size. Bovine serum albumin was incorporated into the hydrogel to simulate delivery of a model protein drug. The protein diffusion coefficients, based a Fickian release model, were calculated to be between 10(-10) and 10(-12) cm(2)/s with slight variance due to PETA concentration and the type of comonomer used. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
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