Sol-Gel Phase-Reversible Hydrogel Templates and Uses Thereof

    公开(公告)号:US20180221281A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-08-09

    申请号:US15872895

    申请日:2018-01-16

    Applicant: AKINA, INC.

    Abstract: Discrete microstructures of predefined size and shape are prepared using sol-gel phase-reversible hydrogel templates. An aqueous solution of hydrogel-forming material is covered onto a microfabricated silicon wafer master template having predefined microfeatures, such as pillars. A hydrogel template is formed, usually by lowering the temperature, and the formed hydrogel template is peeled away from the silicon master template. The wells of predefined size and shape on the hydrogel template are filled with a solution or a paste of a water-insoluble polymer, and the solvent is removed to form solid structures. The formed microstructures are released from the hydrogel template by simply melting the hydrogel template in water. The microstructures are collected by centrifugation. The microstructures fabricated by this method exhibit pre-defined size and shape that exactly correspond to the microwells of the hydrogel template. The method of preparing microstructures based on hydrogel templates is simple and can easily produce large quantities of the microstructures.

    CROSSLINKED NANOPARTICLE COMPOSITION
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    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20170319507A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-11-09

    申请号:US15649768

    申请日:2017-07-14

    Abstract: The present invention provides a process for preparing the nanoparticles. The process comprises first forming a water-in-oil emulsion from chitosan lactate, amoxicillin, dioctyl sodium sulfosuccinate, glutaraldehyde or bis[sulfosuccinimidyl] suberate, and oil, and sonicating the mixture of to form nanoparticles comprising chitosan crosslinked by dioctyl sodium sulfosuccinate and glutaraldehyde or by dioctyl sodium sulfosuccinate and bis[sulfosuccinimidyl] suberate, wherein the nanoparticles have an average diameter of 100-600 nm and have amoxicillin entrapped by the crosslinked chitosan. The present invention is also directed to nanoparticles comprising crosslinked chitosan and amoxicillin, wherein amoxicillin is entrapped by the crosslinked chitosan. The nanoparticles have an average diameter of 100-600 nm, and the entrapped amoxicillin is at least 5% (w/w) of the total weight nanoparticles.

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