Abstract
A star-shaped copolymer, poly(N-isopropylacrylamide-co-itaconamic acid (poly(NIPAAm-co-IAM)), being pH- and thermo-dual-responsive, was synthesized by atomic transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) and characterized in this work. The lower critical solution temperature (LCST) of the star copolymer increases with the molar fraction of IAM. The particle size decreases as the temperature increases but increases as the pH value increases. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) reveals that the star-shaped copolymer has a near-spherical core-shell structure that favors drug delivery. The star copolymer can be used in drug encapsulation as well as drug release. The star copolymer has different drug release rates in environments of different pH, and thus it can carry drugs in an acidic (gastric) environment and release the drugs in a neutral or less acidic (intestinal) environment.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 493-503 |
| Number of pages | 11 |
| Journal | Colloid and Polymer Science |
| Volume | 293 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Feb 2014 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2014, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.
Keywords
- Drug release
- Lower critical solution temperature (LCST)
- Temperature sensitivity
- pH sensitivity
- poly(NIPAAm-co-IAM)
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