Fabrication of robust capsules by sequential assembly of polyelectrolytes onto charged liposomes
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| author | Ruano, Marta Mateos-Maroto, Ana Ortega, Francisco Ritacco, Hernan Rubio, Jose E. F. Guzman, Eduardo Rubio, Ramon G. |
| author_facet | Ruano, Marta Mateos-Maroto, Ana Ortega, Francisco Ritacco, Hernan Rubio, Jose E. F. Guzman, Eduardo Rubio, Ramon G. |
| contents | This work presents a simply methodology for coating small unilamellar liposomes bearing different degrees of positive charge with polyelectrolyte multilayers using the sequential Layer-by-Layer (LbL) deposition method. The liposomes were made of mixtures of DOPC (1,2-dioleyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocoline) and DODAB (dimethyl dioctadecyl ammonium bromide), and coated by alternated layers of the sodium salt of poly(4-styrenesulfonate), PSS, and poly(allylamine), PAH, as polyanion and polycations, respectively. The results shows that the zeta potential of the liposomes was not very sensitive to the mole fraction of DODAB in the membrane, XD, in the range 0.3< XD<0.8. We were able to coat the liposomes with up to four polymer bilayers. The growth of the capsules size was followed by dynamic light scattering, and in some cases by cryo-TEM, with good agreement between both techniques. The thickness of the layers, measured from the hydrodynamic radius of the coated liposome, depends on the polyelectrolyte used, so that the PSS layers adopt a much more packaged conformation than the PAH layers. An interesting finding is that the PSS amount needed to reach the isoelectric point of the capsules increases linearly with the charge density of the bare liposomes, whereas the amount of PAH does not depend on it. As expected, the preparation of the multilayers has to be done in such a way that when the system is close to the isoelectric point the capsules do not aggregate. For this, we dropped the polyelectrolyte solution quickly, fast stirring and using dilute liposome suspensions. The method is very flexible and not limited to liposomes or polyelectrolyte multilayers, also coatings containing charged nanoparticles can be easily made. |
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| spellingShingle | Fabrication of robust capsules by sequential assembly of polyelectrolytes onto charged liposomes Ruano, Marta Mateos-Maroto, Ana Ortega, Francisco Ritacco, Hernan Rubio, Jose E. F. Guzman, Eduardo Rubio, Ramon G. Soft Condensed Matter This work presents a simply methodology for coating small unilamellar liposomes bearing different degrees of positive charge with polyelectrolyte multilayers using the sequential Layer-by-Layer (LbL) deposition method. The liposomes were made of mixtures of DOPC (1,2-dioleyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocoline) and DODAB (dimethyl dioctadecyl ammonium bromide), and coated by alternated layers of the sodium salt of poly(4-styrenesulfonate), PSS, and poly(allylamine), PAH, as polyanion and polycations, respectively. The results shows that the zeta potential of the liposomes was not very sensitive to the mole fraction of DODAB in the membrane, XD, in the range 0.3< XD<0.8. We were able to coat the liposomes with up to four polymer bilayers. The growth of the capsules size was followed by dynamic light scattering, and in some cases by cryo-TEM, with good agreement between both techniques. The thickness of the layers, measured from the hydrodynamic radius of the coated liposome, depends on the polyelectrolyte used, so that the PSS layers adopt a much more packaged conformation than the PAH layers. An interesting finding is that the PSS amount needed to reach the isoelectric point of the capsules increases linearly with the charge density of the bare liposomes, whereas the amount of PAH does not depend on it. As expected, the preparation of the multilayers has to be done in such a way that when the system is close to the isoelectric point the capsules do not aggregate. For this, we dropped the polyelectrolyte solution quickly, fast stirring and using dilute liposome suspensions. The method is very flexible and not limited to liposomes or polyelectrolyte multilayers, also coatings containing charged nanoparticles can be easily made. |
| title | Fabrication of robust capsules by sequential assembly of polyelectrolytes onto charged liposomes |
| topic | Soft Condensed Matter |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.15329 |