Two temperature sensitive drug carriers, poly (N-isopropylacrylamide-co-acrylic acid) (PNIPA-co-AA) and poly (N-isopropylacrylamide-vinyl pyrrolidone-acrylic acid) (PNIPA-VP-AA), were successfully synthesized through free radical mechanism. The diameters of PNIPA-co-AA and PNIPA-VP-AA particles can be regulated to be less than 100 nm, which were related to surfactant sodiumdodecyl sulfate and i...

Materials and Instruments: All chemicals were used as received without further purification. Hydrogen tetrachloroaurate(III) hydrate (HAuCl4·3H2O), 99.9% (metal basis Au 49%) was purchased from Alfa Aesar; sodium citrate tribasic dihydrate (99.0%), hydroquinone (99.5%) and AgNO3 (99.9999%) were purchased from Sigma-Aldrich; 2-mercaptobenzoimidazole-5-carboxylic acid was purchased from Tokyo Che...

This work presents an important example of novel hybrid vesicles with pH-triggered transmembrane channels prepared by co-assembly of poly(acrylic acid)-g-poly(monomethoxy ethylene glycol) (PAAc-g-mPEG) with a cationic lipid, didodecyldimethylammonium bromide (DDAB), via electrostatic interaction for effective doxorubicin (DOX) release.

In the title N-tosyl-acryl-amide compounds, C20H17NO4S, (I), and C23H21NO3S, (II), the conformation about the C=C bond is E. The acryl-amide groups, [-NH-C(=O)-C=C-], are almost planar, with the N-C-C=C torsion angle being -170.18 (14)° in (I) and -168.01 (17)° in (II). In (I), the furan, phenyl and 4-methyl-benzene rings are inclined to the acryl-amide mean plane by 26.47 (11), 69.01 (8) and 8...

Poly(acrylic acid- co-3-azidopropyl acrylate) and poly(acrylic acid- co-propargyl acrylate) have been alternately fabricated into a multilayer via the click reaction. The layer-by-layer deposition was monitored with a quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation (QCM-D) in real time. The response of the multilayer under continuous flow of a bromate-sulfite-ferrocyanide solution with pH oscillat...