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. 2020 Mar 3;36(8):2082-2092.
doi: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.9b03936. Epub 2020 Feb 23.

Coarse-Grained Molecular Dynamic and Experimental Studies on Self-Assembly Behavior of Nonionic F127/HS15 Mixed Micellar Systems

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Coarse-Grained Molecular Dynamic and Experimental Studies on Self-Assembly Behavior of Nonionic F127/HS15 Mixed Micellar Systems

Wenting Wu et al. Langmuir. .

Abstract

The self-assembly of a nonionic triblock copolymer (F127) and a nonionic surfactant (HS15) has been investigated due to favorable changes in properties in their mixtures. The effect of the mixing ratio on the self-assembly process and on the structural stability of the mixtures was studied by coarse-grained molecular dynamic simulation (CGMD) and experimental measurements (transmission electron microscopy, dynamic light scattering measurement, drug loading stability analysis, and fluorescence spectroscopy measurement). The CGMD provided the information on self-assembly behavior. The microstructure and micellar stability are affected by different proportions of F127/HS15. Pure HS15 molecules (system I) can rapidly form stable aggregates driven by strong hydrophobic force, including two steps: the formation of seed clusters and the fusion of them. At low F127 ratio (system II), the self-assembly process is dynamic unstable, and a volatile "coil/cluster-like" aggregate is formed under the single "binding" effect. As the ratio of added F127 increase, such as system III, stable "lotus-seedpod-like" aggregates form under the double effects of "binding plus wrapping". Its dynamic equilibrium can be achieved rapidly. The experimental results approved the assumption of "different mixing ratio with different structural stability" and even different loading stability of F127/HS15 systems for drugs with different log P, such as PUE and DTX, which means different loading area for them in the micellar systems at different mixing ratios because of less hydrophobic microdomains with the increase of F127 molecules.

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