Theranostic Fibers for Simultaneous Imaging and Drug Delivery

Jin, Miao; Yu, Deng‐Guang; Geraldes, Carlos F. G. C.; Williams, Gareth R.; Bligh, S. W. Annie

doi:10.1021/acs.molpharmaceut.6b00197

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“…These nanofiber mats have both large surface area , 3D web structures with huge porosity [16,17]. For the cylindrical nanofibers, their volume (V) can be roughly calculated according to the following concept.…”

Section: A Calculation About the Surface Enlargement From 1d Nanofibersmentioning

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Simple Calculations but Amusing Lessons about Teaching Nanotechnology in Higher Education

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Abstract. The higher education should follow closely the fast development of modern science and technology. Particularly in those disciplines about engineering and applied sciences, the lessons about state-of-the-art techniques are very important to cultivate the students' innovation ability and capability of solving the complex engineering problems. However, how to effectively teach these contents needs careful considerations. Here, it is demonstrated that the simple calculations can achieve amusing results about the lessons on nanotechnologies such as electrospinning and electrospraying. The surface enlargement effects of nanomaterials including 2-dimensional graphene, 1-dimensional electrospun nanofiber, and 0-dimensional nanoparticle are calculated. All the calculation demonstrate that the magnitude of surface area increase is equal to the magnitude the size decrease. These simple calculations can be good start points for giving lessons about nanotechnologies to college students, can make the courses more vivid, and can provoke the students' interests about new kinds of advanced techniques.

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Section: A Calculation About the Surface Enlargement From 1d Nanofibersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Simple Calculations but Amusing Lessons about Teaching Nanotechnology in Higher Education

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Sun²,

Liu³

et al. 2017

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“…Certainly, they are still some other complicated issues such as final applications of the electrosprayed particles. For examples, these particles can be easily exploited for providing sustained release, fast release and biphasic release [22][23][24]; the drugs can be both therapeutic ingredients and also agents for detection [25,26]; and the polymeric matrix can be water soluble, degradable or insoluble [27,28]. As for a complicated engineering issue, it has at least three layers of meaning.…”

Section: Complicated Issues For An Example Application -Electrosmentioning

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Complicated Engineering Issues about Electrospraying - A Vivid Lesson for Engineering Education in Higher School

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Huang²,

Sun³

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Abstract-The capability of finding and resolving complicated engineering issues is very important for the college students to begin their career. In high school, teachers should take advantage of advanced technologies in two ways. One is to transfer the knowledge and practice experiences to the students and the other is to share with them how to find and resolve the complicated issues. In this paper, with electrospraying as an objective, several complicated issues are put forward. Electrospraying is a simple but very complicated engineering process. When it is exploited to create medicated composite for drug sustained release, complicated issues occur not only at the selections of raw materials, suitable working processes and key parameters, but also at the systematic designs of final functional nanomaterials and smooth implementation of working processes. Advanced technologies can be vivid teaching materials for the students to learn how to refine and resolve complex engineering issues, and thus to foster their practice interests, to improve their innovative and engineering capabilities.

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“…The traditional monolithic nanoparticles will release all they contained drug at the stomach when soluble polymer is exploited as the drug carrier ("A" in Figure 3). However, when a thin layer of pH-sensitive polymer is applied on the monolithic nanoparticles to form a core-shell structure, the drug can be sent to the colon region for local drug delivery ("B" and "C" in Figure 3) [27][28][29]. Certainly, there are numerous other potential applications that wait to be developed by the researchers, including the graduate students.…”

Section: Innovation Is About Building the Structure-property-perfmentioning

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From Mechanical Comminution to Coaxial Electrospraying: Innovation Education to the Graduate Students

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Yan²,

Zhang³

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Abstract-It is a gradual development process that the creating of fine solid materials from mechanical comminution to the single-fluid electrospraying, and to the coaxial electrospraying. From these processes, a series of materials can be exploited for innovation education to the graduate students who will begin their scientific researches and puzzle to how to commence. Here, at least three kinds of materials about innovations can be drawn out for education. The first is the innovation on fabrication tools for creating small solid materials. The second is the innovation on developing novel nanomaterials with complex nanostructures. The third innovation is about building the structure-property-performance relationship for functional applications. These teaching materials should be very useful for provoking the interests of graduate students on scientific researches and promoting them to do more innovative practices.

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Theranostic Fibers for Simultaneous Imaging and Drug Delivery

Cited by 57 publications

References 43 publications

Simple Calculations but Amusing Lessons about Teaching Nanotechnology in Higher Education

Simple Calculations but Amusing Lessons about Teaching Nanotechnology in Higher Education

Complicated Engineering Issues about Electrospraying - A Vivid Lesson for Engineering Education in Higher School

From Mechanical Comminution to Coaxial Electrospraying: Innovation Education to the Graduate Students

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