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Polymer micelles are an attractive means to solubilize water insoluble compounds such as drugs. Drug loading, formulations stability and control over drug release are crucial factors for drug‐loaded polymer micelles. The interactions between the polymeric host and the guest molecules are considered critical to control these factors but typically barely understood. Here, we compare two isomeric polymer micelles, one of which enables ultra‐high curcumin loading exceeding 50 wt.%, while the other allows a drug loading of only 25 wt.%. In the low capacity micelles, steady‐state fluorescence revealed a very unusual feature of curcumin fluorescence, a high energy emission at 510 nm. Time‐resolved fluorescence upconversion showed that the fluorescence life time of the corresponding species is too short in the high‐capacity micelles, preventing an observable emission in steady‐state. Therefore, contrary to common perception, stronger interactions between host and guest can be detrimental to the drug loading in polymer micelles.
As one kind of “smart” material, thermogelling polymers find applications in biofabrication, drug delivery and regenerative medicine. In this work, we report a thermosensitive poly(2-oxazoline)/poly(2-oxazine) based diblock copolymer comprising thermosensitive/moderately hydrophobic poly(2-N-propyl-2-oxazine) (pPrOzi) and thermosensitive/moderately hydrophilic poly(2-ethyl-2-oxazoline) (pEtOx). Hydrogels were only formed when block length exceeded certain length (≈100 repeat units). The tube inversion and rheological tests showed that the material has then a reversible sol-gel transition above 25 wt.% concentration. Rheological tests further revealed a gel strength around 3 kPa, high shear thinning property and rapid shear recovery after stress, which are highly desirable properties for extrusion based three-dimensional (3D) (bio) printing. Attributed to the rheology profile, well resolved printability and high stackability (with added laponite) was also possible. (Cryo) scanning electron microscopy exhibited a highly porous, interconnected, 3D network. The sol-state at lower temperatures (in ice bath) facilitated the homogeneous distribution of (fluorescently labelled) human adipose derived stem cells (hADSCs) in the hydrogel matrix. Post-printing live/dead assays revealed that the hADSCs encapsulated within the hydrogel remained viable (≈97%). This thermoreversible and (bio) printable hydrogel demonstrated promising properties for use in tissue engineering applications.
A series of polypeptoid homopolymers bearing short (C1–C5) side chains of degrees of polymerization of 10–100 are studied with respect to thermal stability, glass transition and melting points. Thermogravimetric analysis of polypeptoids suggests stability to >200 °C. The study of the glass transition temperatures by differential scanning calorimetry revealed two dependencies. On the one hand an extension of the side chain by constant degree of polymerization decrease the glass transition temperatures (Tg) and on the other hand a raise of the degree of polymerization by constant side chain length leads to an increase of the Tg to a constant value. Melting points were observed for polypeptoids with a side chain comprising not less than three methyl carbon atoms. X-ray diffraction of polysarcosine and poly(N-ethylglycine) corroborates the observed lack of melting points and thus, their amorphous nature. Diffractograms of the other investigated polypeptoids imply that crystalline domains exist in the polymer powder.
The introduction of novel bioactive materials to manipulate living cell behavior is a crucial topic for biomedical research and tissue engineering. Biomaterials or surface patterns that boost specific cell functions can enable innovative new products in cell culture and diagnostics. This study aims at investigating the interaction of living cells with microstructured, nanostructured and nanoporous material surfaces in order to identify distinct systematics in cell-material interplay. For this purpose, three different studies were carried out and yielded individual effects on different cell functions.
Cell migration processes are controlled by sensitive interaction with external cues such as topographic structures of the cell's environment. The first part of this study presents systematically controlled assays to investigate the effects of spatial density and local geometry of micron scale topographic cues on amoeboid migration of Dictyostelium discoideum cells in quasi-3D pillar fields with systematic variation of inter-pillar distance and pillar lattice geometry. We can extract motility parameters in order to elucidate the details of amoeboid migration mechanisms and consolidate them in a two-state contact-controlled motility model, distinguishing directed and random phases. Specifically, we find that directed pillar-to-pillar runs are found preferably in high pillar density regions, and cells in directed motion states sense pillars as attractive topographic stimuli. In contrast, cell motion in random probing states is inhibited by high pillar density, where pillars act as obstacles for cell motion. In a gradient spatial density, these mechanisms lead to topographic guidance of cells, with a general trend towards a regime of inter-pillar spacing close to the cell diameter. In locally anisotropic pillar environments, cell migration is often found to be damped due to competing attraction by different pillars in close proximity and due to lack of other potential stimuli in the vicinity of the cell. Further, we demonstrate topographic cell guidance reflecting the lattice geometry of the quasi-3D environment by distinct preferences in migration direction.
We further investigate amoeboid single-cell migration on intrinsically nano-structured, biodegradable silica fibers in comparison to chemically equivalent plain glass surfaces. Cell migration trajectories are classified into directed runs and quasi-random migration by a local mean squared displacement (LMSD) analysis. We find that directed movement on silica fibers is enhanced in a significant manner by the fibers' nanoscale surface-patterns. Further, cell adhesion on the silica fibers is a microtubule-mediated process. Cells lacking microtubules detach from the fibers, but adhere well to glass surfaces. Knock-out mutants of myosin II migrating on the fibers are as active as cells with active myosin II, while the migration of the knock-out mutants is hindered on plain glass.
We investigate the influence of the intrinsically nano-patterned surface of nanoporous glass membranes on the behavior of mammalian cells. Three different cell lines and primary human mesenchymal stem cells (hMSCs) proliferate readily on nanoporous glass membranes with mean pore sizes between 10 nm and 124 nm. In both proliferation and mRNA expression experiments, L929 fibroblasts show a distinct trend towards mean pore sizes > 80 nm. For primary hMSCs, excellent proliferation is observed on all nanoporous surfaces. hMSC on samples with 17 nm pore size display increased expression of COL10, COL2A1 and SOX9, especially during the first two weeks of culture. In upside down culture, SK MEL-28 cells on nanoporous glass resist the gravitational force and proliferate well in contrast to cells on flat references. The effect of paclitaxel treatment of MDA MB 321 breast cancer cells is already visible after 48 h on nanoporous membranes and strongly pronounced in comparison to reference samples.
The studies presented in this work showed novel and distinct effects of micro- and nanoscale topographies on the behavior of various types of living cells. These examples display how versatile the potential for applications of bioactive materials could become in the next years and decades. And yet this variety of different alterations of cell functions due to topographic cues also shows the crucial part of this field of research: Carving out distinct, robust correlations of external cues and cell behavior is of utmost importance to derive definitive design implications that can lead to scientifically, clinically and commercially successful products.
Melt electrowriting, a high-resolution additive manufacturing technique, is used in this study to process a magnetic polymer-based blend for the first time. Carbonyl iron (CI) particles homogenously distribute into poly(vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF) melts to result in well-defined, highly porous structures or scaffolds comprised of fibers ranging from 30 to 50 µm in diameter. This study observes that CI particle incorporation is possible up to 30 wt% without nozzle clogging, albeit that the highest concentration results in heterogeneous fiber morphologies. In contrast, the direct writing of homogeneous PVDF fibers with up to 15 wt% CI is possible. The fibers can be readily displaced using magnets at concentrations of 1 wt% and above. Combined with good viability of L929 CC1 cells using Live/Dead imaging on scaffolds for all CI concentrations indicates that these formulations have potential for the usage in stimuli-responsive applications such as 4D printing.
Adrenocortical carcinoma (ACC) is a malignant tumor originating from the adrenal gland cortex with a heterogeneous but overall dismal prognosis in advanced stages. For more than 50 years, mitotane has remained a cornerstone for the treatment of ACC as adjuvant and palliative therapy. It has a very poor aqueous solubility of 0.1 mg/l and high partition coefficient in octanol/water (log P) value of 6. The commercially available dosage form is 500 mg tablets (Lysodren®). Even at doses up to 6 g/day (12 tablets in divided doses) for several months, > 50% patients do not achieve therapeutic plasma concentration > 14 mg/l due to poor water solubility, large volume of distribution and inter/intra-individual variability in bioavailability. This article aims to give a concise update of the clinical challenges associated with the administration of high-dose mitotane oral therapy which encompass the issues of poor bioavailability, difficult-to-predict pharmacokinetics and associated adverse events. Moreover, we present recent efforts to improve mitotane formulations. Their success has been limited, and we therefore propose an injectable mitotane formulation instead of oral administration, which could bypass many of the main issues associated with high-dose oral mitotane therapy. A parenteral administration of mitotane could not only help to alleviate the adverse effects but also circumvent the variable oral absorption, give better control over therapeutic plasma mitotane concentration and potentially shorten the time to achieve therapeutic drug plasma concentrations considerably.
Mitotane as tablet form is currently the standard treatment for adrenocortical carcinoma. It has been used for 5 decades but suffers from highly variable responses in patients, subsequent adverse effects and overall lower response rate. This can be fundamentally linked to the exceedingly poor water solubility of mitotane itself. In terms of enhancing water solubility, a few research groups have attempted to develop better formulations of mitotane to overcome the issues associated with tablet dosage form. However, the success rate was limited, and these formulations did not make it into the clinics. In this article, we have comprehensively reviewed the properties of these formulations and discuss the reasons for their limited utility. Furthermore, we discuss a recently developed mitotane nanoformulation that led us to propose a novel approach to mitotane therapy, where intravenous delivery supplements the standard oral administration. With this article, we combine the current state of knowledge as a single piece of information about the various problems associated with the use of mitotane tablets, and herein we postulate the development of a new injectable mitotane formulation, which can potentially circumvent the major problems associated to mitotane's poor water solubility.
Starting off with solubility experiments of possible precursors, the present study reveals the whole development of a sol gel processing route for transparent p type semiconductive thin films with delafossite structure right to the fabrication of functional p-n junctions. The versatile sol formulation could successfully be modified for several oxide compositions, enabling the synthesis of CuAlO2, CuCrO2, CuMnO2, CuFeO2 and more. Although several differences in the sintering behaviour of powders and thin films could be observed, the powder experiments significantly contributed to the clearification of the intricate phase development during thermal annealing and also to optimization of the annealing sequence for thin film processing. Two different ternary systems turned out to be the most promising candidates for p-TCO application: Copper aluminum oxide for its high optical transmittance and copper chromium oxide for its low synthesis temperature, which allowed thin film deposition on low-cost borosilicate substrates. In order to combine the advantages of these two systems, the quaternary oxide composition CuAl1-xCrxO2 was investigated. With a higher optical transmittance than CuCrO2, a lower synthesis temperature than CuAlO2 and a lower resistivity than both parent systems, the optimum composition of the quaternary oxide is reached for x = 0.50. Compared to physical vapour deposition techniques, the undoped thin films presented here still need to make up some deficites in their optoelectronic performance. Although the best sol-gel samples are able to compete with RF sputtered samples or sampes deposited by PLD in transmittance, their resistivity is almost two orders of magnitude higher. The most probable reasons for this are the characteristic imperfections of sol-gel thin films like porosity and small crystallite size, which create barriers like grain boundaries and bottlenecks like barely connected particles. By additional effort such shortcomings can be repelled to a certain extend, but nevertheless the density of undoped sol-gel material always stays behind its pendants processed by physical vapour deposition.[246] Furthermore, such additional endeavour is likely to annihilate the advantage of sol-gel technique in processing costs. Extrinsic doping is a common method to decrease the resistivity of delafossite materials. Partially replacing the trivalent cations by divalent ones creates additional holes and thus generates additional charge carriers for p-type semiconductivity. This can improve the conductivity of delafossites by up to three orders of magnitude. Due to the compositorial flexibility of sol-gel processing, dopants could be introduced easily in this study by soluble precursors. However, improving the conductivity of CuAlO2 and CuAl0.5Cr0.5O2 via this method failed. Actually, this seems to be due to the fact that instead of being incorporated into the delafossite phase the dopant ions form intransparent phase impurities like spinels, which interfere with optical transmittance of the thin films. On the contrary, doping had a positive effect on the conductivity and the optical transmittance of copper chromium oxide, with magnesium being the most effective dopant. The resistivity could be decreased by more than three orders of magnitude, but in order to achieve this, much higher Mg concentrations than by other thin film deposition methods were necessary. This indicates a low doping efficiency in sol gel processed thin films, but also the ability of sol gel processing to incorporate more magnesium into the oxide than any other processing method. The extensive substitution of the chromium ions also increases the optical transmittance and allows sol gel processed thin films to draw level with thin films deposited by sputtering methods or PLD. Finally, the applicability of the delafossite thin films was proven by the asymmetric current voltage characteristics of heterojunctions between ITO and the delafossites. Shunting problems of the metallic contacts, on the other hand, reveal structural deficites of the delafossites, which should be the subject of further investigations.
In the framework of this thesis, new UV-patternable organic-inorganic hybrid polymers with higher refractive indices than reported in the literature for photonic applications were developed and studied with respect to their chemical structure, their optical properties, and their ability of being patterned by 1PP and 2PP. Particularly with 2PP, one could create 3D structures using the novel hybrid materials. The materials were prepared from hydrolysis and polycondensation reactions of · organo-alkoxysilanes and titanium alkoxide precursors, modified with and without CL and organo-alkoxysilanes precursors, and · organo-alkoxysilanes, titanium alkoxide and organophosphorus precursors. The major scope of this work was to increase the refractive index of ORMCER® materials based on only organo-alkoxysilanes. Thus, the parameters which influence the refractive index were investigated thoroughly. In particular, the synthesis parameters such as the introduction of titanium alkoxide and its concentration, the organo-alkoxysilanes, the catalyst concentration, the solvent used, but, also the processing parameters such as, the UV exposure dose, initiator concentration, and developer were investigated.
The detection of smallest mechanical loads plays an increasingly important role in many areas of advancing automation and manufacturing technology, but also in everyday life. In this doctoral thesis, various microparticle systems were developed that are able to indicate mechanical shear stress via simple mechanisms. Using a toolbox approach, these systems can be spray-dried from various nanoscale primary particles (silica and iron oxide) to micrometer-sized units, so-called supraparticles. By varying the different building blocks and in combination with different dyes, a new class of mechanochromic shear stress indicators was developed by constructing hierarchically structured core-shell supraparticles that can indicate mechanical stress via an easily detectable color change. Three different mechanisms can be distinguished. If a signal becomes visible only by a mechanical load, it is a turn-on indicator. In the opposite case, the turn-off indicator, the signal is switched off by a mechanical load. In the third mechanism, the color-change indicator, the color changes as a result of a mechanical load. In principle, these indicators can be used in two different ways. First, they can be incorporated into a coating as an additive. These coatings can be applied to a wide range of products, including food packaging, medical devices, and generally any sensitive surface where mechanical stress, such as scratches, is difficult to detect but can have serious consequences. Second, these shear stress indicators can also be used directly in powder form and for example then applied in 3D-printing or in ball mills. A total of six different shear stress indicators were developed, three of which were used as additives in coatings and three were applied in powder form. Depending on their composition, these indicators were readout by fluorescence, UV-Vis or Magnetic Particle Spectroscopy. The development of these novel shear stress indicator supraparticles were successfully combined molecular chemistry with the world of nano-objects to develop macroscopic systems that can enable smart and communicating materials to indicate mechanical stress in a variety of applications.
Superparamagnetic nanocomposite microparticles, compromised of magnetite nanoparticles in a silica matrix, have been synthesised and surface-modified to act as adsorbers for substances (e.g. toxic heavy metals or valuable resources) dissolved in fluids like water. The particles can be used for a magnetic-extraction-assisted separation process of these target substances which thereby can be recovered from the fluid.