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@ARTICLE{Schuldes:867579,
author = {Schuldes, Isabel and Noll, Dennis M. and Schindler, Torben
and Zech, Tobias and Götz, Klaus and Appavou, Marie-Sousai
and Boesecke, Peter and Steiniger, Frank and Schulz, Peter
S. and Unruh, Tobias},
title = {{I}nternal {S}tructure of {N}anometer-{S}ized {D}roplets
{P}repared by {A}ntisolvent {P}recipitation},
journal = {Langmuir},
volume = {35},
number = {42},
issn = {1520-5827},
address = {Washington, DC},
publisher = {ACS Publ.},
reportid = {FZJ-2019-06202},
pages = {13578 - 13587},
year = {2019},
abstract = {Antisolvent precipitation (AP) is a low-cost and
less-invasive preparation alternative for organic
nanoparticles compared to top-down methods such as
high-pressure homogenization or milling. Here we report on
particularly small organic nanoparticles (NPs) prepared by
AP. It has been found for various materials that these NPs
in their liquid state exhibit a significant degree of
molecular order at their interface toward the dispersion
medium including ubiquinones (coenzyme Q10), triglycerides
(trimyristin, tripalmitin), and alkanes (tetracosane). This
finding is independent of the use of a stabilizer in the
formulation. While this is obviously a quite general
interfacial structuring effect, the respective structural
details of specific NPs systems might differ. Here, a
detailed structural characterization of very small liquid
coenzyme Q10 (Q10) NPs is presented as a particular example
for this phenomenon. The Q10 NPs have been prepared by AP in
the presence of two different stabilizers, sodium dodecyl
sulfate (SDS) and pentaethylene glycol monododecyl ether
(C12E5), respectively, and without any stabilizer. The
NPs’ size is initially analyzed by photon correlation
spectroscopy (PCS). The SDS-stabilized Q10 NPs have been
studied further by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC),
small-angle X-ray and neutron scattering (SAXS, SANS),
wide-angle X-ray scattering (WAXS), and cryogenic
transmission electron microscopy (CryoTEM). A simultaneous
analysis of SAXS and contrast variation SANS studies
revealed the molecular arrangement within the interface
between the NPs and the dispersion medium. The Q10 NPs
stabilized by SDS and C12E5, respectively, are small (down
to 19.9 nm) and stable (for at least 16 months) even when no
stabilizer is used. The SDS-stabilized Q10 NPs reported
here, are therewith, to the best of our knowledge, the
smallest organic NPs which have been reported to be prepared
by AP so far. In particular, these NPs exhibit a
core–shell structure consisting of an amorphous Q10 core
and a surrounding shell, which is mainly composed of
oriented Q10 molecules and aligned SDS molecules. This
structure suggests a significant amphiphilic behavior and a
rather unexpected stabilizing role of Q10 molecules.},
cin = {JCNS-FRM-II / JCNS-1 / MLZ},
ddc = {540},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)JCNS-FRM-II-20110218 /
I:(DE-Juel1)JCNS-1-20110106 / I:(DE-588b)4597118-3},
pnm = {6G4 - Jülich Centre for Neutron Research (JCNS) (POF3-623)
/ 6G15 - FRM II / MLZ (POF3-6G15)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-6G4 / G:(DE-HGF)POF3-6G15},
experiment = {EXP:(DE-MLZ)KWS1-20140101},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
pubmed = {pmid:31547660},
UT = {WOS:000492800800008},
doi = {10.1021/acs.langmuir.9b00944},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/867579},
}