Tunable Chemical Release from Polyester Thin Film by Photocatalytic Zinc Oxide and Doped LiYF4 Upconverting Nanoparticles

• Main Authors: Cheng, Ting, Ortiz, Raphael Francois, Vedantham, Kumar, Naccache, Rafik, Vetrone, Fiorenzo, Marks, Robert S., Steele, Terry W. J.
• Other Authors: School of Materials Science & Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: PLGA; Photocatalysis
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/80577; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/42169
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Once manufactured or implanted, polyester release kinetics tend to be fixed with little modulation possible for optimal local chemical concentrations. Here, a typical implantable polyester was fabricated into thin films (∼50 μm thick) with additives of photocatalytic ZnO nanoparticles, lanthanide-do...