Alginate/chitosan microparticles for gastric passage and intestinal release of therapeutic protein nanoparticles

K Ling, H Wu, AS Neish, JA Champion - Journal of Controlled Release, 2019 - Elsevier
Enzymes with intracellular activity have significant potential to treat diseases. Protein
nanoparticles (NPs) considerably enhance intracellular delivery of enzymes. We have …

[HTML][HTML] Recent advances in the microfluidic generation of shape-controllable hydrogel microparticles and their applications

Y Liu, Z Chen, J Xu - Green Chemical Engineering, 2024 - Elsevier
Hydrogel microparticles, generally accepted as significant green materials, have been
widely used in chemical, biological, and biomedical fields owing to their excellent …

Synthesis and application of hydrogel calcium alginate microparticles as a biomaterial to remove heavy metals from aqueous media

TH Duc, TK Vu, CT Dang, DD La, GM Kim… - … Technology & Innovation, 2021 - Elsevier
Microfluidic systems are an emerging technology to fabricate uniform spherical
microparticles. This study employed a flow-focusing microfluidic device (MFFD) to produce …

Mechanical characterization of soft microparticles prepared by droplet microfluidics

E Kim, H Lee - Journal of Polymer Science, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Droplet microfluidics is one of the most promising approaches that allows preparation of
microparticles with tailored structure and composition. Various functional microparticles …

Microfluidics assisted generation of innovative polysaccharide hydrogel microparticles

M Marquis, J Davy, B Cathala, A Fang, D Renard - Carbohydrate polymers, 2015 - Elsevier
Capillary flow-based approach such as microfluidic devices offer a number of advantages
over conventional flow control technology because they ensure highly versatile geometry …

One-Step microfluidic synthesis of spherical and bullet-like alginate microcapsules with a core–shell structure

L Huang, K Wu, X He, Z Yang, H Ji - Colloids and surfaces A …, 2021 - Elsevier
This work reports a novel and facile route to generate spherical and bullet-like alginate
microcapsules with a core–shell structure based on the deformation of double-emulsion …

A numerical study on the dynamics of droplet formation in a microfluidic double T-junction

IL Ngo, TD Dang, C Byon, SW Joo - Biomicrofluidics, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
In this study, droplet formations in microfluidic double T-junctions (MFDTD) are investigated
based on a two-dimensional numerical model with volume of fluid method. Parametric …

Effects of junction angle and viscosity ratio on droplet formation in microfluidic cross-junction

IL Ngo, S Woo Joo, C Byon - Journal of Fluids …, 2016 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
This study describes the dynamic behaviors of droplet formation in microfluidic cross-
junction devices (MFCDs) based on a two-dimensional numerical model using the volume of …

Alginate droplets pre-crosslinked in microchannels to prepare monodispersed spherical microgels

Q Wang, S Liu, H Wang, J Zhu, Y Yang - Colloids and surfaces A …, 2015 - Elsevier
Monodispersed spherical calcium alginate microgels (denoted as Ca-ALG) with uniform and
controllable size were prepared by using a microfluidics technique. Herein, an aqueous …

Fabrication of shape controllable alginate microparticles based on drop-on-demand jetting

Q Gao, Y He, J Fu, J Qiu, Y Jin - Journal of Sol-Gel Science and …, 2016 - Springer
Drop-on-demand jetting was combined with a gelation technique to fabricate alginate
microparticles into varied shapes. First, uniform alginate microdroplets were generated by …