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M. Franckevicius / Medical Physics in the Baltic States 7 (2009) 34 - 38<br />

applications [12, 14]. Suppose dendrimers and silver<br />

nanoparticles can compose fluorescent, biocompatible<br />

and highly photostable dendrimer nanocomposite that<br />

may be used for cell labelling [15].<br />

In this work optical properties of liquid crystalline (LC)<br />

poly(propylene-imine) (PPI) dendrimers of fourth<br />

generation with encapsulated silver nanoparticles were<br />

investigated for medical applications.<br />

2. Experiment<br />

Liquid crystalline PPI dendrimer of fourth generation<br />

with –OC5H11 terminal mesogenics units and Ag silver<br />

nanoparticles were used. Synthesis of liquid crystalline<br />

PPI dendrimers were described in detail in ref. [16] by<br />

condensation of 4-(40-ethoxybenzoyloxy)<br />

salicylaldehyde with the terminal amino groups of the G<br />

= 4 of poly(propylene imine) (PPI-(NH2)32) using a<br />

method previously described [17]. For small silver<br />

nanoparticles preparation briefly 200 mL 0.1 mM<br />

AgNO3 solution was reduced with 2 mL 0.5 mM NaBH4<br />

in the presence of tri-sodium citrate (0.3 mM) under<br />

gentle stirring. Immediately after injection of the<br />

reducing agent, 2 mL of a 5 wt% aqueous solution of<br />

PVP was added [18].<br />

Incorporation of silver nanoparticles in dendrimers was<br />

involved by using concentrations of the same molar<br />

ratios of both materials in chloroform solution. Firstly<br />

liquid crystalline dendrimers were dissolved in<br />

chlorophorm solution. Aqueous solution of silver<br />

nanoparticles was evaporated and then nanoparticles<br />

were mixed with dendrimer chloroform solution.<br />

Encapsulated LC PPI dendrimers with silver<br />

nanoparticles were characterized by optical absorption<br />

spectroscopy. Optical spectra were recorded by doublebeam<br />

spectrophotometer Perkin Elmer Lambda 19.<br />

More information of purity of dendrimers was described<br />

in ref. [16]. Structural and optical characteristics of used<br />

silver nanoparticles were described by Bastys et all.<br />

[18].<br />

3. Results<br />

Structure of liquid crystalline PPI dendrimers of fourth<br />

generation is presented in Fig. 1. Also silver<br />

nanoparticles a few nanometer in size in the liquid<br />

crystalline PPI dendrimer were encapsulated.<br />

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Fig.1. Fourth-generation PPI-[C2]32 liquid crystalline<br />

dendrimer<br />

Figure 2 shows modeled liquid crystalline PPI<br />

dendrimer like-structure consisting of four terminal<br />

flexible chains on periphery were demonstrating empty<br />

spaces inside branching units. In this empty spaces<br />

could be hosted silver nanoparticles. Calculations of the<br />

same dendrimers structures composed of six and eight<br />

terminal chains show occupation of empty spaces are 1<br />

to 3nm 2 in square.<br />

Fig.2. The calculated periphery of the PPI dendrimer<br />

structures composed of 4 terminal flexible chains displaying<br />

empty spaces between chains<br />

These empty spaces can be used as containers or holders<br />

for silver nanoparticles or drugs. According calculations<br />

size of encapsulated silver nanoparticles in to dendrimer<br />

couldn’t be bigger than these calculated sizes.<br />

Figure 3 shows transmission electron microscope<br />

images (TEM) of silver nanoparticles. Background of<br />

the image shows initial nanoparticles, whose are used<br />

for incorporation into liquid crystalline PPI dendrimer.

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