Micellar aggregates of direct and reverse Tetronics for enhanced drug solubilisation

DOI

Amphiphilic linear surfactants based on PEO and PPO triblock copolymers, known as Pluronics, exhibit a rich polymorphism and have been extensively studied for their applications in drug delivery and targeting. This work focuses on a promising and yet far less studied family of polymeric surfactants based on PEO and PPO known as Tetronics, which are four-armed (X-shaped) copolymers. Tetronics show a clear advantage over Pluronics because of their pH-responsiveness. In this proposal, we seek to establish the detailed structure of Tetronic micelles and in particular the mixtures of direct and reverse Tetronics which have been show to significantly enhance drug solubilisation, as a function of pH and temperature. This fundamental structural understanding is essential for the subsequent development of drug-carriers of Tetronic micelles with tailored release properties.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.61780266
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/61780266
Provenance
Creator Dr Raquel Barbosa; Ms Amaia Uriz; Ms Nicole Zoratto; Dr Steve King; Dr Jose Ramon Isasi; Dr Cecile Dreiss; Professor Gustavo Gonzalez-Gaitano
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2018
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Chemistry; Natural Sciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2015-07-22T08:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2015-07-24T08:00:00Z