Fabrication of polymer coated layered double hydroxide for pharmaceutical applications

• Main Author: Lim, Sei Hien.
• Other Authors: Xu Rong
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Chemical engineering::Biochemical engineering
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/16586
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

LDHs are promising drug carriers that can accommodate a large pool of anionic drugs into the interlayer for enhancing controlled or site-targeting drug release. However, LDHs cannot be directly injected into human body without any pre-treatment because they will trigger opsonization process and phag...