NANOPARTICLES. Production of amorphous nanoparticles by supersonic spray-drying with a microfluidic nebulator.
- Amstad E School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA. Institute of Materials, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
- Gopinadhan M Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.
- Holtze C BASF SE, D-67056 Ludwigshafen, Germany.
- Osuji CO Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.
- Brenner MP School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
- Spaepen F School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
- Weitz DA School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA. Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA. weitz@seas.harvard.edu.
- 2015-08-29
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- Science (New York, N.Y.). - 2015
English
Amorphous nanoparticles (a-NPs) have physicochemical properties distinctly different from those of the corresponding bulk crystals; for example, their solubility is much higher. However, many materials have a high propensity to crystallize and are difficult to formulate in an amorphous structure without stabilizers. We fabricated a microfluidic nebulator that can produce amorphous NPs from a wide range of materials, even including pure table salt (NaCl). By using supersonic air flow, the nebulator produces drops that are so small that they dry before crystal nuclei can form. The small size of the resulting spray-dried a-NPs limits the probability of crystal nucleation in any given particle during storage. The kinetic stability of the a-NPs—on the order of months—is advantageous for hydrophobic drug molecules.
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- DOI 10.1126/science.aac9582
- PMID 26315432
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