With the development of alternatives to traditional fossil energy and the rise of wearable technology, flexible energy storage devices have attracted great attention. In this paper, a polyaniline/poly(acrylamide‐sodium acrylate copolymer) hydrogel (PASH) with high flexibility and excellent electrochemical properties for flexible electrodes is fabricated by freeze‐thaw‐shrink treatment of a highly water‐absorptive hydrogel, together with in‐situ polymerization of aniline at a low aniline concentration (0.1 mol L−1). The PASH exhibits a conductivity of 4.05 S m−1 and an elongation at break of 1245%. The freeze‐thaw‐shrink treatment greatly improves the electrochemical performance and stability of the conductive PASH. The area specific capacitance of PASH reaches 849 mF cm−2 and the capacitance maintains 89% after 1000 galvanostatic charge–discharge cycles. All the raw materials are conventional industrialized materials and no additional templating agent is needed during the entire synthesis process. This study provides a cost‐efficient approach for the fabrication of conductive polymer hydrogels, which has a broad application prospect in flexible energy storage electronic devices.
Results: The t 1/2 values of DOX/P(HB-HO) NPs and DOX/FA-PEG-P(HB-HO) NPs were 2.7-and 3.5-times higher than that of free DOX. No significant difference (p40.05) was found in C max between the NPs and free DOX. The T max values of the two NPs were prolonged from 0.25 to 1 h. The AUC 0-t values were 1.55-and 3.05-folds higher than that of free DOX, and MRT increased to 15.99 h for DOX/P(HB-HO) NPs and 25.14 h for DOX/FA-PEG-P(HB-HO) NPs. For DOX/FA-PEG-P(HB-HO) NPs, the DOX content in the tumors were 10.81-and 3.33-times higher than those for free DOX and DOX/P(HB-HO) NPs at 48 h, respectively. Discussion and conclusions: DOX/FA-PEG-P(HB-HO) NPs displayed reduced cardiac toxicity and improved bioavailability. Moreover, the NPs exhibited a significant extent of DOX accumulation in the tumors, thus suggesting that folate-targeted NPs could effectively transport into HeLa tumors with satisfying targeting.
In this study, a novel poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyoctanoate) (P(HB-HO)) microparticle with an encapsulated antibiotic (azithromycin, AZI) was prepared by the electrospinning method. The resulting microparticles were evaluated for surface morphology, particle size, drug loading, encapsulation efficiency, in vitro drug-release and degradation. The in vitro cytotoxicity and in vivo pharmacokinetics were also studied. The sizes of microparticles showed a narrow monodisperse size distribution approximately from 3 to 30 µm. In vitro release experiments exhibited sustained release behavior. The results of in vitro degradation tests demonstrated that the mass loss of the P(HB-HO) microparticles was 9.6% and the morphology varied greatly within 24 weeks. P(HB-HO) showed no cytotoxicity to fibroblast when incubated with blank P(HB-HO) microparticles during the tests. The in vivo pharmacokinetic study demonstrated that the microparticles exhibited longer circulation properties than free AZI. It is suggested that novel AZI-loaded P(HB-HO) microparticles can be utilized as a biodegradable and biocompatible drug delivery system.
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