Nature Communications (Feb 2018)

Sustained micellar delivery via inducible transitions in nanostructure morphology

  • Nicholas B. Karabin,
  • Sean Allen,
  • Ha-Kyung Kwon,
  • Sharan Bobbala,
  • Emre Firlar,
  • Tolou Shokuhfar,
  • Kenneth R. Shull,
  • Evan A. Scott

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03001-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Nanocarrier administration is often performed via intermittent bolus injection while sustained delivery platforms are rarely reported. Here the authors demonstrate that the cylinder-to-sphere transitions of self-assembled filomicelle scaffolds can be used for sustained delivery with improved resorptive capacity and biocompatibility.