Reducible polydopamine coated magnetic nanoparticles (SPIONs@PDA) for both magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) detection and cell targeting drug delivery.
A novel redox-sensitvie core cross-linked micelles based on disulfide-linked PEG-polypeptide hybrid polymer were prepared and demonstrated for anticancer drug delivery, where N,N-bis(acrylate) cystamine (BAC) served as cross-linker, allyl-terminated poly(γ-benzyl-L-glutamate)
(PBLG) and polyethylene glycol (PEG) methyl ether methacrylate acted as comonomers. The molecular structure and characteristics of the cross-linked micelle and the precursor were confirmed by 1H NMR and FT-IR. The cross-linked micelles could be easily degraded into individual linear short
chains (Mn = 1800) in the presence of 20 mM glutathione (GSH) by the cleavage of the disulfide linkages from the cross-linker BAC. Doxorubicin (DOX) was selected as a model anticancer drug and encapsulated into the micelles with a decent drug loading content of 21.6 wt%.
Compared to the burst release of free DOX in first 6 hours, the in vitro release studies revealed that the micelles exhibited a sustained and high cumulative drug release in GSH (up to 86%) within 24 h, rather than the relatively low release rate of 62% in PBS (pH 7.4). Cell cytoxicity
experiments showed that the obtained micelles exhibited nontoxic, and the drug-loaded micelles exhibited high anti-cancer efficacy. All the results showed that the designed cross-linked PEG-polypeptide hybrid micelles may be a promising vehicle for anticancer drug delivery with stimuli-triggered
drug release behavior in reducing environment.
The poor environmental friendliness, low adsorption capacity and nonreusability of adsorbents are still challenging for the removal of pollutants in aqueous solution. Herein, novel polypeptide-functionalized silica-coated magnetic nanoparticles (PS-MNPs), Fe3O4@SiO2@PLL nanoparticles, with good environmental friendliness, excellent adsorption capability and economic reusability were designed and prepared for efficient removal of methylene blue (MB) and Cr(VI) ion (Cr2O[Formula: see text]. The chem-physical properties of Fe3O4@SiO2@PLL nanoparticles, such as chemical structure, nanosize, nanomorphology, crystalline structure, magnetization and thermo-oxidative degradation behavior were fully investigated in this study. In addition, the adsorption properties of the Fe3O4@SiO2@PLL nanoparticles for MB and Cr(VI) ion in aqueous solution were explored by batch adsorption experiments. Based on the experimental results, the Fe3O4@SiO2@PLL nanoparticles demonstrated excellent adsorption capacity for removal of both MB and Cr(VI) ion that the theoretical maximum adsorption capacities of the nanoparticles were 301.2[Formula: see text]mg [Formula: see text] g[Formula: see text] for MB and 164.7[Formula: see text]mg [Formula: see text] g[Formula: see text] for Cr(VI), respectively. The adsorption process could be better fitted by pseudo-second-order model, and matched well with the Langmuir isotherm equation. Moreover, the Fe3O4@SiO2@PLL nanoparticles could be easily regenerated by desorbing metal ions and organic dyes from the adsorbents with appropriate eluents, and showed good adsorption capacity after five recycles. In brief, the as-prepared PS-MNPs exhibited improved environmental friendliness, excellent adsorption properties and high regeneration efficiency, which could be used as a potential adsorbent for different kinds of contaminants removal.
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