Cosolvent effects on the coil–globule transitions in aqueous polymer solutions are not well understood, especially case of amphiphilic cosolvents that preferentially adsorb and lead to both swelling collapse. Although a predominant focus literature has been placed role polymer–cosolvent attractive interactions, our recent work shown excluded-volume interactions (repulsive interactions) can driv...

Solubility of lornoxicam in various pure solvents and solvent-cosolvent mixtures was studied to understand drug vehicle interactions and in order to get the required solubility equal to the dose of lornoxicam, i.e., 4 mg/ml for development of solution formulation. Polyethylene glycol (PEG) 400, propylene glycol, ethanol, water, dimethyl formamide, dimethyl sulfoxide, and ethyl acetate were used...

We report a new nonaqueous polymerization-induced self-assembly (PISA) formulation based on the reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) dispersion alternating copolymerization of styrene with N-phenylmaleimide using a nonionic poly(N,N-dimethylacrylamide) stabilizer in a 50/50 w/w ethanol/methyl ethyl ketone (MEK) mixture. The MEK cosolvent is significantly less toxic than the 1...

Using temperature replica-exchange molecular dynamics, we characterize a globule-to-coil transition for a softwood-like lignin biopolymer in a tetrahydrofuran (THF)-water cosolvent system at temperatures at which the cosolvent undergoes a de-mixing transition. The lignin is found to be in a coil state, similar to that in the high-temperature miscible region. Analysis of the transition kinetics ...

improving the solubility of non-soluble herbal materials is an issue of interest in cell culture based experiments. evaluating the biological activity of these materials could become possible with the aid of cosolvents/surfactants which obviously should have little or no cytotoxic activity. in the present study, the cytotoxic activity of six cosolvents/surfactants: ethanol, methanol, tween 20 a...

Polyglycerol dendrimers (PGDs) with 4-5 generations were synthesized and used to investigate the effect of dendritic architecture and its generation on aqueous solubilization of paclitaxel (PTX), a poorly water-soluble drug. Chemical and physical properties of the PGDs were characterized by NMR, MALDI-TOF mass, GPC, viscosity, and dynamic light scattering measurements. The PTX solubility in all...

To optimize and enhance the value of a previously developed supercritical fluids (SF) process for removing oil from soybean flakes, we devised a two-step, sequential scheme for extraction of oil and phospholipidcontaining fractions using SC-C02 alone or with ethanol. PLs were selectively removed from the flakes using the SC-C02/ethanol mixture. Phosphatidylcholine (PC) and phosphatidylethanolam...

The objective of the present study was to examine the influence of cosolvent system and microemulsion formulation on in-vitro skin permeation of gabapentin, furthermore, to characterize the physicochemical properties of drug-loaded oil-in-water (o/w) and water-in-oil (w/o) cremophor 40-based microemulsions in comparison to the blank counterparts. The cosolvent system prepared by homogenous mixi...