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MEDICAL PHYSICS IN <strong>THE</strong> BALTIC STATES 7 (2009)<br />

Proceedings of International Conference “Medical Physics 2009”<br />

8 - 10 October 2009, Kaunas, Lithuania<br />

PPI DENDRIMERS ENCAPSULATED WITH SILVER NANOPARTICLES AS<br />

CARRIERS FOR MEDICAL APPLICATIONS<br />

Marius FRANCKEVIČIUS<br />

Liquid Crystals Laboratory, Faculty of Physics and Technology, Vilnius Pedagogical University, Studentu 39, LT-<br />

08106 Vilnius, Lithuania.<br />

Email: marius.franckevicius@yahoo.com<br />

Abstract: Poly(propylene-imine) PPI dendrimers incorporated with silver nanoparticles were studied. Optical spectra of<br />

fourth generation liquid crystalline poly(propylene-imine) PPI dendrimer with antimicrobial silver nanoparticles in<br />

chloroform solution were investigated. Shift of plasmon resonance peak towards to IR region about 20 nm in the liquid<br />

crystalline poly(propylene-imine) PPI-silvernanoparticle system was observed.<br />

Keywords: liquid crystalline dendrimers, encapsulated dendrimers, silver nanoparticles, absorption<br />

1. Introduction<br />

Nanoparticles have distinguished possibility to be<br />

applied for diagnostics and targeted therapy. There exist<br />

many nanostructures with possible applications for<br />

targeting into cell, but in this study we orient on to<br />

dendrimers, which are soft polymeric nanostructures<br />

that offer structural flexibility and possibility to<br />

incorporate nanoparticles [1].<br />

Dendrimers are perfect biofriendly, non-toxic,<br />

monodisperse organics macromolecules, with highly<br />

branched, and well defined chemical structure [2].<br />

Dendrimers are a relatively new group of polymeric<br />

macromolecules, and have considerable interest to<br />

biomedical researchers because of their desired<br />

properties manipulation possibility during the synthesis.<br />

All bonds in dendrimers emerge radially from a central<br />

core to which monomers are attached. For the synthesis<br />

of dendrimers divergent and convergent strategy can be<br />

applied, therefore periphery and interior of dendrimer<br />

can distinguish big differences in features. Chemical<br />

and physical properties of dendrimers can be varied and<br />

optimized, therefore they show potential for medical<br />

applications. Typical size of these compounds varies<br />

from 1 to about 10nm [3] that it’s possible to diffuse<br />

dendrimers through biological membranes [4].<br />

Comparing lower generation dendrimers with higher<br />

generations tend to adopt spherical surface containing<br />

empty spaces in the interior. The empty spaces could<br />

host a guest molecules, drugs or nanoparticles [5]. This<br />

feature is very important when we talk about dendrimers<br />

as drug carriers, templates for nanoparticles synthesis<br />

and possible holders in wide range of nanosized<br />

materials. Drugs can be covalently coupled to the<br />

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dendrimer surface or complexed within the interior<br />

because there are many terminal groups to which drug<br />

molecules can be conjugated. Encapsulation of drugs<br />

inside dendrimers offer potential benefits such as<br />

prolonging the circulation time in the blood, protecting<br />

unstable drugs from the environment, enhancing the<br />

solubility of poorly soluble drugs, achieving controlled<br />

release and tissue targeting.<br />

It’s also known that silver is efficient antimicrobial<br />

agent [6, 7]. Therefore usefulness of these low toxic,<br />

noble metal nanoparticles is very important for medical<br />

applications. On other hand silver nanoparticles exhibit<br />

the highest efficiency of plasmon resonance of all other<br />

known metal nanoparticles. Optical properties of metal<br />

nanoparticles originate from collective oscillations of<br />

conductor electrons, which are termed surface plasmon<br />

polariton resonances after excitation by<br />

electromagnetics radiation [8]. There exist many works<br />

in which optical properties of silver nanoparticles were<br />

studied [9, 10].<br />

Recently were demonstrated, dendrimers are an<br />

effective polymeric cage for the preparation noble metal<br />

nanoparticles – referred as dendrimer metal<br />

nanocomposites [11]. Metal nanoparticles can be<br />

formed in the dendrimer interior or on periphery, it’s<br />

depending on the metal which is used to the synthesis,<br />

the type of reaction core and on the peripheral<br />

functional groups of the dendrimer [12].<br />

In some cases hybrid systems when they are composed<br />

from organic-organic or organic-inorganic composites<br />

are very interesting for many applications: in membrane<br />

technology, drug delivery, sensors technology and etc.<br />

[13]. Synthesis of these hybrid systems were described<br />

and characterized by some groups for different

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