This research is consistent with the overarching mission of personalized medicine by developing a simple methodology, addition of surfactant, to modify the release properties of an inhaled liposomal formulation.
This allowed us to experiment with a wide range of water-immiscible phases while avoiding surfactants to modify the surface tension in the aqueous droplets.
Recently, some researchers used anionic surfactants to modify LDH's surface properties, and then to adsorb many types of organic molecules [15 17].
The results indicate that the main effect of a change in temperature and/or addition of surfactant is to modify the lifetime of the physical crosslinks without changing their density, as inferred from a quasi-constant value of the plateau modulus.
In this study, we evaluated the toxicity of AgNPs on human alveolar type-I-like epithelial (TT1) cells in the absence and presence of Curosurf (a natural pulmonary surfactant substitute), hypothesising that the pulmonary surfactant would act to modify toxicity.
CTAB, one of the most effective cationic surfactant, was employed to modify the surface and porosity of clay.
Two organo-montmorillonites, Mt1 and Mt2 with octadecyl trimethyl ammonium and with benzyl dimethyl hexadecyl ammonium surfactants were used to modify one base bitumen with a content of 4 wt.%, respectively.
Surfactants were found to modify absorption not only through their hydrodynamic effects, but also by some other mechanisms, which was nevertheless estimated to contribute only about 15% of the total resistance to mass transfer in the presence of surfactant.
The formation of mesostructured silica formed by cooperative self-assembly of silicate and surfactants was used to modify its structures[6, 7].
Various strategies have been developed to improve the stability and biocompatibility of AuNRs by using polymers, peptides, surfactants, and lipids to modify the NP surface.
