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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Biomaterials. 2013 Sep 23;34(38):10.1016/j.biomaterials.2013.09.015. doi: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2013.09.015

Table 2.

Stability of amphiphilic BCP protected β-carotene nanoparticles in 90 mL of H2O and 10 mL of THF

β-carotene (mg) 50 50 50 50 50
PS(10k)-b-PEG(5k) (mg) - 50 - - -
PCL(12k)-b-PEG(5k) (mg) - - 50 - -
PLA(10k)-b-PEG(5k) (mg) - - - 50 -
PLGA(10k)-b-PEG(5k) (mg) - - - - 50

Saline (1 wt%) w/o w/ w/o w/ w/o w/ w/o w/ w/o w/
dm¯ (nm) 89 > 1000 32 36 42 44 38 41 62 69
ζ (mV) −19.9 −0.1 −7.6 0.9 −27.5 −3.4 −36.1 -- −23.1 0.1
Stable (Y/N) N N Y Y N N N N Y Y