manganese zinc ferrite nanoparticles (mzf nps) were synthesized by using a direct, efficient and environmental friendly hydrothermal method. to improve the colloidal stability of mzf nps for biomedical applications, nps were coated with chitosan by ionic gelation technique using sodium tripolyphosphate (tpp) as crosslinker. the synthesized nps were characterized by x ray diffraction (xrd) analy...

Oral controlled drug delivery systems represent the most popular form of sustained drug delivery systems for the obvious advantages of oral route of drug administration. Such systems release the drug with constant or variable release rates. The oral controlled release systems shows a typical pattern of drug release in which the drug concentration is maintained in the therapeutic window for a pr...

The main objective of the study was to design a non-condensing polymeric microspherebased gene delivery system for targeting macrophages. An external gelation technique was used to prepare plasmid DNA-encapsulated calcium alginate microspheres. The microspheres were characterized for particle size, surface charge, surface morphology, and DNA loading efficiency. Stability of encapsulated DNA was...

We have studied the assembly of 3-D colloidal crystals from binary mixtures of colloidal microspheres and highly charged nanoparticles on flat and epitaxially patterned substrates created by focused ion beam milling. The microspheres were settled onto these substrates from dilute binary mixtures. Laser scanning confocal microscopy was used to directly observe microsphere structural evolution du...

We developed a novel fabrication technique of titania microspheres utilizing a robust external gelation method on an oil/hydrogel interface. By putting sodium alginate droplets on an interface between oil and Ca 2+ -loaded hydrogel, surfactant dissolved in oil forms amphiphilic bilayer. Water molecules and calcium ions transfer through this amphiphilic bilayer. As a result, alginate droplets sh...