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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Mar 24.
Published in final edited form as: Chem Eng Sci. 2014 Sep 16;125:32–57. doi: 10.1016/j.ces.2014.08.061

Table 1.

List of materials produced and processed by EHDA

Materials Sizes Solvents References
Pharmaceutics/drugs
Aspirin ≈ 6 μm Ethanol Li et al., 2006
Methylparahydroxybenzoate 1.58–4.55 μm Ethanol Ijsebaert et al., 2006
Beclomethasone dipropionate 1.5–4.5 μm Ethanol Ijsebaert et al., 2006
Paclitaxel ≈ 10 μm Ethanol unpublished
Carbamazepine 0.32–1.75 μm Methanol Wang et al., 2011
Indomethacin 1.7 μm Ethanol Nystrom et al., 2011
Piroxicam 5.5 μm Chloroform Nystrom et al., 2011
Budesonide 4.9 μm Chloroform Nystrom et al., 2011
Niflumic acid 0.2–0.8 μm Acetone/water Ambrus et al., 2013
Biological materials
Insulin 110 nm ethanol/water/HCl Gomez et al., 1998
BSA 700 nm ethanol/acetic acid Cardoso et al., 2011
Sucrose (C12H22O11) 20 nm Water Morozov et al., 2011
Sericin 25–175 nm DMSO Hazeri et al., 2012
Silk-elastin-like protein 24 and 36 nm ammonium acetate buffer Anumolu et al., 2011
DNAs Water Chen et al., 2000; Okubo et al., 2008
Cells Abeyewickreme et al., 2009; Ng et al., 2011; Sahoo et al., 2012; Braghirolli et al., 2013
Whole organism Mongkoldhumrongkul et al., 2010; Clarke et al., 2008
Natural polymers
Chitosan 124 nm and ≈ 2.5 μm Ethanol/acetic acid/water Arya et al., 2009; Pancholi et al., 2009; Zhang and Kwakami, 2010
Cellulose ≈ 1 μm Ethanol and butanone/DCM Huang et al., 2012; Bodnar and Rosell-Llompart, 2013
Alginate 0.15 to 2 mm Water Moghadam et al., 2008; Xie and Wang, 2007; Tabeei et al., 2012; Park et al., 2012
Synthetic polymers
PS ≈ 0.75 – 5 THF Fantini et al., 2006
PCL 0.3 – 20 μm DCM/chloroform/DMAc Ding et al., 2005; Wu and Clark, 2007; Enayati et al., 2010; Bock et al., 2011
PLGA 0.06 – 15 μm DCM/acetonitrile/TFE/DMSO/TEAF Xie et al., 2006a; Xie et al., 2006b; Almeria et al., 2010; Almeria et al., 2014; Berkland et al., 2004
PLA 3.7 – 19 μm 1-butanol/methylene chloride/1,2-dichloroethane-ethanol (DCE)/chloroform Yeo et al., 2005; Xu et al., 2006; Ikeuchi et al., 2012
Polymer/polymer blends
PLA/PLGA ≈ 5 μm DCM-DMSO Xie et al., 2008
PLGA/Pluronics ≈ 1.4–1.6 μm THF-DMF Seth and Katti, 2012
Drug/polymer
Taxol/PCL 3–10 DCM-Acetonitrile Ding et al., 2005
Paclitaxel/PLGA 17–32 DCM-Acetonitrile Xie et al., 2006b; Naraharisetti et al., 2007; Ranganath et al., 2009a, b
Beclomethasone-dipropionate/PLA 230–850nm DCM-Ethanol Valo et al., 2009
Celecoxib/PLGA 2–8 μm Acetonitrile Bohr et al., 2012
Ketoprofen/ethyl cellulose Ethanol aqueous Huang et al., 2012
Piperine/p-coumaric acid-thiolated-chitosan 2–5μm Lactic acid Pengpong et al., 2014
Quercetin/PVP, SDS, sucralose 1.3–1.8 μm Dimethylacetamide-Ethanol Li et al., 2014
Griseofulvin/poly (methacrylic acid-co-methyl methacrylate) 1 μm Zhang et al., 2011
BSA/lysozyme/PLGA ~20 μm DCM-water Xie et al., 2007
Salbutamol-sulfate/PLA 230–850nm DCM-Ethanol Valo et al., 2009
BSA/PCL-PPE-EA 2–4 μm Water-DCM Wu et al., 2010b
Ovalbumin/calcium alginate 1.0–1.5 μm Water Sukasamran et al., 2013
BSA/PDMS 5–6 μm Water-acetone Pareta and Edirisinghe et al., 2006
Budesonide/PLGA ~3 μm Acetonitrile Lee et al., 2010c
Paclitaxel/suramin/PLLA/PLGA 10–20 μm DCM-Ethyl Acetate Nie et al., 2010a,b
Doxorubicin/elastin-like polypeptide 150–570nm Water Wu et al., 2009b
Imidazoquinoline/acetalated dextran or acetalated dextran/tween blends ~2 μm
Trifluoroethanol/methanol/ethanol/1-propanol/1-b Duong et al., 2013
Irinotecan/acetalated dextran/PLGA 8.4 μm DMF Rahmani et al., 2013
Cisplatin/maleimide-PEG-PLGA ~550nm Ether/methanol Bai and Liu, 2014
Gemcitabine/folate-chitosan 200–300nm Xu et al., 2013
DNA
pCIKLux Ethanol-water-ethanoic acid Davies et al., 2005
Plasmid DNA/PEI Wu et al., 2010a
Oblimerson sodium/Genasense/lipoplex 100–2500 nm PBS\ethanol Wu et al., 2009a
pET30a-GFP plasmid/gold nanoparticles 20–50 nm water Lee et al., 2011b
Adenovirus/alginate <150 μm Water Park et al., 2012a
Food
Chocolate (fat, sugar, lecinthin) Melt Gorty and Barringer, 2011; Luo et al., 2012
Cocoa butter, coca butter equivalent, lauric butter Melt Marthina and Barringer, 2012
Zein-curcumin 175–900 nm Aqueous-ethanol Gomez-Estaca et al., 2012
Stearic acid-ethylcellulose-Maltol 10–100 nm Ethanol Eltayeb et al., 2013
Composites
Polystyrene/silica nanoparticles 60–100 μm water Moon et al., 2004; Shen et al., 2010
TiO2-PMMA 0.25–1.87 μm Diethylene glycol dimethyl ether Yun et al., 2009
CdSeS-poly(styrene-acrylate) 500–1000nm DMF Sun et al., 2011
PVA-MMT/Ag ~ 4 μm DMF/THF Park et al., 2012; Park et al., 2011; Park et al., 2013
Polystyrene-block-ethylene oxide-quantum dots/iron oxide 36–38 nm Water Duong et al., 2014
Metals
Sn-Bi 5–50 nm melt Yu and Hu, 1997
Au 7.1 nm, 10.9 nm 14.9 nm Water-methanol Lengoro et al., 2002
Pd 4.3 nm Water-methanol Lengoro et al., 2002
Al 4–14 μm Ether-ethanol Wang et al., 2013
Carbon
Carbon nanotubes ~100 nm Methanol Jennerjohn et al., 2010; Kim et al., 2010; Wang et al., 2013
Graphene ~1 μm Water Tian et al., 2013
Inorganic materials
TiO2 10 – 20 nm Ethanol Park et al., 1996; Wang et al., 2005; Terada et al., 2012
TiO2/ZrOx 110 nm 2–4 μm 1-BuOH Borra et al., 1999a; Camelot et al., 1999
CeO2 24.6 and 29.9 nm Ethanol/diethylene glycol butyl ether Oh and Kim, 2007
ZnS 20–40 nm Ethyl alcohol Lenggoro et al., 2000
Ce2O3/TiO2 80–500nm Mou et al., 2013
BiFeO3 Du et al., 2011
Li4/3Ti5/3O4 10 nm 2-propanol-acetic acid Doi et al., 2009
Nano-sized Hydroxyapatite Li et al., 2007
Gas
Microbubble (air) <10 μm Farook et al., 2007a, b; Pancholi et al., 2007; Farook et al., 2009

Abbreviations: PLGA, Poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid); PLA, Polylactic acid; PCL, Poly(3-caprolactone); PHBV, Poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyvalerate); TEAF: Triethyl ammonium formate