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Pickering Emulsions and Antibubbles Stabilized by PLA/PLGA Nanoparticles.
Langmuir : the ACS Journal of Surfaces and Colloids 2021 December 17
Micrometer-sized double emulsions and antibubbles were produced and stabilized via the Pickering mechanism by colloidal interfacial layers of polymeric nanoparticles (NPs). Two types of nanoparticles, consisting either of polylactic acid (PLA) or polylactic- co -glycolic acid (PLGA), were synthesized by the antisolvent technique without requiring any surfactant. PLA nanoparticles were able to stabilize water-in-oil (W/O) emulsions only after tuning the hydrophobicity by means of a thermal treatment. A water-in-oil-in-water (W/O/W) emulsion was realized by emulsifying the previous W/O emulsion in a continuous water phase containing hydrophilic PLGA nanoparticles. Both inner and outer water phases contained a sugar capable of forming a glassy phase, while the oil was crystallizable upon freezing. Freeze drying the double emulsion allowed removing the oil and water and replacing them with air without losing the three-dimensional (3D) structure of the original emulsion owing to the sugar glassy phase. Reconstitution of the freeze-dried double emulsion in water yielded a dispersion of antibubbles, i.e., micrometric bubbles containing aqueous droplets, with the interfaces of the antibubbles being stabilized by a layer of adsorbed polymeric nanoparticles. Remarkably, it was possible to achieve controlled release of a flourescent probe (calcein) from the antibubbles through heating to 37 °C leading to bursting of the antibubbles.
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