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Synthesis of silk fibroin micro- and submicron spheres using a co-flow capillary device
Alexander N Mitropoulos1, Giovanni Perotto, Sunghwan Kim
1Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tufts University, 4 Colby St., Medford, MA, 02155, USA.
Advanced Materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)
|December 17, 2013
Abstract:
A custom-made co-flow capillary device is used to synthesize monodisperse silk fibroin micro- and submicron-spheres with diameters tunable over a wide range of sizes. A model drug release is examined and control of degradation kinetics is obtained by changing sphere diameter.
