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Author: Rommel, Dirk × End date: 2024 × Start date: 2020 × WGL Institute: DWI ×

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    Unravelling colloid filter cake motions in membrane cleaning procedures
    (London : Nature Publishing Group, 2020) Lüken, Arne; Linkhorst, John; Fröhlingsdorf, Robin; Lippert, Laura; Rommel, Dirk; De Laporte, Laura; Wessling, Matthias
    The filtration performance of soft colloid suspensions suffers from the agglomeration of the colloids on the membrane surface as filter cakes.Backflushing of fluid through the membrane and cross-flow flushing across the membrane are widely used methods to temporally remove the filter cake and restore the flux through the membrane. However, the phenomena occurring during the recovery of the filtration performance are not yet fully described. In this study, we filtrate poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) microgels and analyze the filter cake in terms of its composition and its dynamic mobility during removal using on-line laser scanning confocal microscopy. First, we observe uniform cake build-up that displays highly ordered and amorphous regions in the cake layer. Second, backflushing removes the cake in coherent pieces and their sizes depend on the previous cake build-up. And third, cross-flow flushing along the cake induces a pattern of longitudinal ridges on the cake surface, which depends on the cross-flow velocity and accelerates cake removal. These observations give insight into soft colloid filter cake arrangement and reveal the cake’s unique behaviour exposed to shear-stress. © 2020, The Author(s).
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    Multimodal and multiscale optical imaging of nanomedicine delivery across the blood-brain barrier upon sonopermeation
    (Wyoming, NSW : Ivyspring, 2020) May, Jan-Niklas; Golombek, Susanne K.; Baues, Maike; Dasgupta, Anshuman; Drude, Natascha; Rix, Anne; Rommel, Dirk; Stillfried, Saskia von; Appold, Lia; Pola, Robert; Pechar, Michal; van Bloois, Louis; Storm, Gert; Kuehne, Alexander J.C.; Gremse, Felix; Theek, Benjamin; Kiessling, Fabian; Lammers, Twan
    Rationale: The blood-brain barrier (BBB) is a major obstacle for drug delivery to the brain. Sonopermeation, which relies on the combination of ultrasound and microbubbles, has emerged as a powerful tool to permeate the BBB, enabling the extravasation of drugs and drug delivery systems (DDS) to and into the central nervous system (CNS). When aiming to improve the treatment of high medical need brain disorders, it is important to systematically study nanomedicine translocation across the sonopermeated BBB. To this end, we here employed multimodal and multiscale optical imaging to investigate the impact of DDS size on brain accumulation, extravasation and penetration upon sonopermeation. Methods: Two prototypic DDS, i.e. 10 nm-sized pHPMA polymers and 100 nm-sized PEGylated liposomes, were labeled with fluorophores and intravenously injected in healthy CD-1 nude mice. Upon sonopermeation, computed tomography-fluorescence molecular tomography, fluorescence reflectance imaging, fluorescence microscopy, confocal microscopy and stimulated emission depletion nanoscopy were used to study the effect of DDS size on their translocation across the BBB. Results: Sonopermeation treatment enabled safe and efficient opening of the BBB, which was confirmed by staining extravasated endogenous IgG. No micro-hemorrhages, edema and necrosis were detected in H&E stainings. Multimodal and multiscale optical imaging showed that sonopermeation promoted the accumulation of nanocarriers in mouse brains, and that 10 nm-sized polymeric DDS accumulated more strongly and penetrated deeper into the brain than 100 nm-sized liposomes. Conclusions: BBB opening via sonopermeation enables safe and efficient delivery of nanomedicine formulations to and into the brain. When looking at accumulation and penetration (and when neglecting issues such as drug loading capacity and therapeutic efficacy) smaller-sized DDS are found to be more suitable for drug delivery across the BBB than larger-sized DDS. These findings are valuable for better understanding and further developing nanomedicine-based strategies for the treatment of CNS disorders. © The author(s).