Introduction
Materials and methods
Materials
Preparation of magnetite nanoparticles and FPEGPE nanocomposite
Cell viability study
Cell culture
Cytotoxicity study
Loading and release amounts of PE from FPEGPE nanocomposite
Instrumentation
Results and discussion
Powder XRD
Infrared spectroscopy
Thermogravimetric analysis
Magnetic properties
Particle size and size distribution
Release study of PE from FPEGPE nanocomposite
Aqueous solution | Saturated release (%) |
R
2
| Rate constant (k)a (mg min−1) |
t
1/2
a
(min) | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Pseudo-first-order | Pseudo-second-order | Parabolic diffusion | ||||
pH 4.8 | 60.8 | 0.3673 | 0.9874 | 0.4576 | 4.85 × 10−4
| 29 |
pH 7.4 | 83.1 | 0.3294 | 0.9832 | 0.4164 | 2.42 × 10−4
| 81 |