Phase behavior, microstructure and cytotoxicity in mixtures of a charged triblock copolymer and an ionic surfactant
| Autor: | Kenneth D. Knudsen, Eduardo F. Marques, Kaizheng Zhu, Bo Nyström, Shahla Bagherifam, Gareth Griffiths, Sandra G. Silva, Bárbara Claro |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Cloud point
Aqueous solution Materials science Polymers and Plastics Organic Chemistry General Physics and Astronomy 02 engineering and technology 010402 general chemistry 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology 01 natural sciences Micelle 0104 chemical sciences chemistry.chemical_compound chemistry Pulmonary surfactant Chemical engineering Dynamic light scattering Polymer chemistry Materials Chemistry Copolymer Sodium dodecyl sulfate 0210 nano-technology Ethylene glycol |
| Zdroj: | European Polymer Journal. 75:461-473 |
| ISSN: | 0014-3057 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.eurpolymj.2016.01.018 |
| Popis: | In the present study, aqueous solutions of a thermo-responsive negatively charged triblock copolymer methoxy-poly(ethylene glycol)- block -poly( N -isopropylacrylamide)- block -poly(2-succinic acid-propyloxyl methacrylate) (MPEG 45 - b -PNIPAAM 48 - b -PSAPMA 10 ), have been characterized in the presence of sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) or dodecyltrimethylammonium bromide (DTAB) surfactant, at a constant concentration of polymer and various levels of surfactant addition. For this purpose, dynamic light scattering (DLS) was used to probe the effect of the ionic surfactants on the size of the block copolymer species, and small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) was applied as a complementary technique to probe the structure on a mesoscopic length scale. The results obtained revealed that the addition of a surfactant to the copolymer solution leads to a decrease of the particle size, due to electrostatic repulsions and solubilization of the hydrophobic microdomains. By zeta potential analysis it was shown that the charge density of the surfactant-coated polymer moieties increases with increasing surfactant concentration. The turbidities of the polymer–surfactant mixtures were measured using a cloud point analyzer. Our data revealed that the behavior not only depends on the surfactant concentration, but it is also affected in some cases by temperature. In addition, cytotoxicity studies were carried out on mouse fibroblasts cells NIH–3T3 to evaluate the potential of the systems as drug delivery carriers. Results showed that the cytotoxicity of the polymer changes with surfactant addition, rising as the concentration of SDS increases but falling off with increasing DTAB concentration. |
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