Water vapour permeability of poly(lactic acid) nanocomposites

Evaluation of Ibuprofen Release from Gelatin /Hydroxyapatite /Polylactic Acid Nanocomposites

Gelatin-hydroxyapatite-polylactic acid (PLA) nanocomposites were synthesized using five different formulations. The nanocomposites were loaded with ibuprofen and the amount of drug in the carriers was determined. X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis was conducted before and after drug loading to ensure the presence of ibuprofen on the nanocomposites. Drug delivery was evaluated in phosphate buffere...

Green nanocomposites of polylactic acid reinforced with isolated nanocellulose

Polylactic acid (PLA)

This website provides an excellent overview of PLA as a polymer, its properties, and manufacture. This web article describes the production of lactic acid from biomass by microbial fermentation coupled to a poly-merization process to make PLA. The article is a bit dated and its industrial projections are now seen to be a bit over-optimistic. NatureWorks is the company that started large-scale p...

Investigation of drug release from paclitaxel loaded polylactic acid nanofibers

Objective(s): In this study, drug loaded electrospun nanofibrous mats were prepared and drug release and mechanism from prepared nanofibers were investigated.  Materials and Methods: Paclitaxel (PTX) loaded polylactic acid (PLA) nanofibers were prepared by electrospinning. The effects of process parameters, such as PTX concentration, tip to collector distance, voltage, temperature and flow rate...

ACE water vapour validation

1 Service de Chimie Quantique et Photophysique, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium 2 Department of Chemistry, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada 3 Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 4 Department of Chemistry, University of York, UK 5 Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada 6 Labo...