Rachel E. Pollard, Nouha El Amri, Parker K. Lewis, Jacques Zacharie Thaddeus P. Ponce, Ashley Han, Xiuxian Li, Nathalie M. Pinkerton
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Abstract
Biomedical applications of colloidal nanocrystals (NC) have focused on nanoscale theranostics, that is, composite nanoparticles (CNP) that function as bioimaging probes while simultaneously delivering therapeutic payloads. Thus, there is a need for controlled CNP manufacturing methods that sufficiently decouple vehicle and cargo properties. Here, we investigate the assembly of poly(ethylene glycol)-b-poly(lactic acid) (PEG–PLA)-based CNPs loaded with PLA co-excipient, NCs of various sizes, and model drug molecule rubrene. We compare the established flash nanoprecipitation (FNP), a single-step method, with the emergent sequential nanoprecipitation (SNaP), a two-step method in which component addition can be temporally modulated. We find that using FNP to co-encapsulate cargo with mismatched assembly timescales yields poor CNP size control and nonuniform populations. In contrast, by delaying the CNP stabilizer addition by a few milliseconds via SNaP, we enable CNP size control, a 3-fold increase in cargo uniformity, and a 10-fold increase in co-encapsulation efficiency with rubrene.
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