Issue 50, 2013

Synthesis and enhanced thermal stability of albumins@alumina: towards injectable sol–gel materials

Abstract

A major obstacle to the introduction of bioactively-doped sol–gel based materials for medical applications has been the fact that silica – the most widely studied sol–gel material – despite being a GRAS material, which is widely used as an additive in foods and drug formulations, is still not approved by regulatory agencies for intramuscular injections. Here we point to a potential solution to this problem by shifting the weight to alumina, which is approved for injections as the most common immunization adjuvant. Towards the achievement of this goal we describe the development of protein entrapment methods tailored to alumina, and show high thermal stability of protein-dopants, using a newly developed DSC methodology for this purpose.

Graphical abstract: Synthesis and enhanced thermal stability of albumins@alumina: towards injectable sol–gel materials

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Communication
Submitted
06 Mar 2013
Accepted
23 Apr 2013
First published
24 Apr 2013

Chem. Commun., 2013,49, 5636-5638

Synthesis and enhanced thermal stability of albumins@alumina: towards injectable sol–gel materials

A. Rutenberg, V. V. Vinogradov and D. Avnir, Chem. Commun., 2013, 49, 5636 DOI: 10.1039/C3CC41696H

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